There is a similar thread on the EDF and a local councillor has been contributing to the thread, it seems very helpfully. Who are your local councillors? Can you contact them to help you? Or are any councillors reading this now and are able to contribute?
We got St Barts which was our first choice. Many friends' children got their preferred school of Eliot Bank as there are 2 bulge classes as somebody already said, making a whopping 120 4 and 5 year olds starting in September.
I read somewhere that the school places boom is due in 2015...maybe we are only seeing the beginning of it.