Families living in Reading in Berkshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire should find out later whether their children have been given places at their first choice primary schools.
Reading faces a lack of places from 2014 and moves are being made to tackle the lack of places.
While Oxfordshire has 8,000 places and has received fewer than 7,500 applications.
Would you send your child to a primary school with 800 pupils? Social affairs correspondent Christine Alsford asks is big beautiful?
Read the full storyA school in East Sussex could hold the solution to the growing shortage of primary school places. Ocklynge has expanded to become the largest junior school in Britain with 840 pupils. Education experts are now looking to see if Titan schools like this are the way forward.
