The 5 most popular primary schools in and around Maldon

The data, from Essex County Council, also shows which schools had the least amount of applicants for the upcoming academic year.

The volume of applications can vary depending on a number of factors.

The most popular five schools in and around Maldon were All Saints' Maldon C of E Primary, Great Totham Primary, Heybridge Primary, Wentworth Primary and Burnham-on-Crouch Primary.

All Saints’ topped the list, with 67 children putting it as their first choice out of the 180 total applications.

Wentworth was a close second, with 163 total applicants.

In third was Great Totham, in which 59 chose it as their first choice and 45 as their second.

The school offered out 60 places in total.

There were 60 places given out for Burnham-on-Crouch Primary, of which 100 per cent had selected it as their first choice.

Heybridge Primary was fifth and followed a similar trend.

There were 65 which chose it as their first choice, and 60 of those were offered places.

Across Essex out of a total of 16,067 applications which were received on time, 14,382 pupils who are due to start in reception year in September 2022 have been offered their parent or carer's first preference of primary school.

This equates to 89.51 per cent of the total eligible cohort and is equivalent to the 89.75 per cent who obtained their first preference last year.

Another 6.45 per cent of children were offered their parent's second preference of school.

Tony Ball, Essex County Council’s cabinet member for education excellence, lifelong learning and employability, said: “We continue to invest in creating additional primary school capacity so that as many parents and carers as possible receive their first preference of school for their child.

“I am pleased that this year we have again been able to offer thousands of first preference places. I would like to wish every child starting primary school this year the very best of luck for an exciting school year ahead.