Many young pupils face disappointment with their choice of school[GETTY]Experts blamed soaring birth rates and immigration for the rising number of disappointed families.
The proportion receiving an offer at any of their preferred secondary schools also fell.
Figures available for the first time show one in eight children – 76,600 four and five-year-olds – did not get their first choice of primary school.
The bulge in the birth rate caused by the UK’s younger immigrant population means an extra 250,000 primary school places will be needed by 2016.
About 95.7 per cent of children won a place at one of their top three choices
Parents’ appeals against being refused a place are less likely to be successful because more schools are oversubscribed.
Some schools have already built extra classrooms on land earmarked for libraries or playgrounds.
On April 16, the first primary National Offer Day, when pupils heard which school they would attend in September, 546,000 (87.7 per cent) families of the more than 623,000 who applied were awarded a place at their first-choice school.
About 95.7 per cent of children won a place at one of their top three choices, while 96.4 per cent were given a place at any of their preferred schools.
Around 521,0000 children in England received a senior school offer on March 3, on secondary National Offer Day.
Of those, 85.2 per cent got a place at their first-choice school, down 1.5 percentage points on last year.
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