According to Peterborough City Council, 96.16 per cent of children were offered a place at their first preference school.
The proportion offered a place at their first or second preference school was 99.16% with 99.95% offered their first, second or third preference school.
The council received 2,491 applications for Reception School places for September 2025.
The latest available statistics from the Department for Education show which primary schools were the most difficult to get into. All the other schools not listed here offered the same number of first choice places as first choice offers.
5. Eye Primary School
69 pupils put this school as their first choice but only 60 first choice offers were handed out which is a success rate of 89.95% Photo: Google
6. Hampton Hargate Primary School
97 pupils put this school as their first choice but only 87 first choice offers were handed out which is a success rate of 89.69% Photo: David Lowndes
7. Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
33 pupils put this school as their first choice but only 130 first choice offers were handed out which is a success rate of 90.9% Photo: David Lowndes
8. Fulbridge Academy
128 pupils put this school as their first choice but only 118 first choice offers were handed out which is a success rate of 92.18% Photo: David Lowndes