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Daily Mail
April 13, 2014
An extra 130,000 primary school places are needed within three years due to soaring immigration and a high birth rate, figures reveal.
Record numbers of families will face disappointment when primary schools are allocated next week, following a steep rise in applicants.
This is partly due to the impact of immigration, as well as a booming birth rate and the fact that fewer middle class parents can afford to send their children to private school.
Councils are already deploying emergency measures to deal with the influx, such as squeezing pupils into ‘bulge’ classes and using little-known legal powers to override class size limits.
But as many as 100,000 pupils – one in five in some areas – are expected to miss out on their first-choice primary, with around ten pupils fighting for each place at some of the most sought-after schools.
Bygrove Primary School in Tower Hamlets, East London – which was rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted – received 312 applications for just 30 places.
It has been reported that some parents are even resorting to cheating to win offers from their chosen schools, by providing fake addresses or lying about sibling links.
Councils contacted by the Mail cited a Local Government Association report, which found that 130,000 extra primary places will be needed by 2017 – the equivalent of 4,750 classes or around 500 primary schools. Almost 90,000 additional places have already been created this academic year.
Areas under the most pressure include Bristol and Manchester, as well as parts of London such as Croydon, Harrow, Waltham Forest and Newham, many of which are home to high numbers of migrant families.
A report revealed on Thursday that officials drastically underestimated levels of immigration, missing 350,000 migrants from Eastern Europe after checking the wrong airports. Croydon alone needs to create 13,501 more places – 43 per cent of its current capacity – and in Harrow, applications have risen 14.8 per cent compared with last year.
