Admissions & Appeals Data

The table shows how Year 7 places were offered on National Offer Day (1st March) for September entry in the current and previous 4 years. It also shows the number of appeals, and success rates.

*To accommodate 2 late EHCP application approvals and assist the Council to meet its legal obligation to provide a school place for each child, the school agreed to offer 2 places over its Published Admission Number (PAN) on 2 March 2026, with the clear intention that this number would fall back to PAN before any further offers were made from the waiting list.

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

Total number of on-time applications:

1172

1101

1059

1002

898

Published Admissions Number

165

150

150

150

150

Total number of places offered on March 1st:

167*

165

165

165

165

Offers to students with an EHCP

17*

6

8

6

8

Offers for looked-after and previously looked-after children (criterion 1):

0

1

1

2

1

Offers for family, social, medical reasons (criterion 2)

2

2

0

0

1

Offers for founders’ children

N/A

0

0

0

0

Offers for siblings (criterion 3)

58

52

51

42

45

Offers for children of staff (criterion 4)

2

0

1

3

1

Offers based on distance from home to the school entrance (criterion 5a)

18

21

21

22

22

Offers based on distance from home to the nodal admission point (criterion 5b)

73

83

83

90

87

Number of incoming Year 7 appeals heard

 

8

14

13

4

Number of incoming Year 7 appeals that were successful

 

1

1

0

0

Furthest distance from home to school offered under criterion 5a on March 1st (and by first week of September)**

680m   

670m   (683m)

715m     (783m)

636m    (698m)

849m (1233m)

Furthest distance from home to the nodal admissions point offered under criteria 5b on March 1st (and by first week of September)**

1789m   

2114m (2570m)  

2293m   (2929m)

2285m   (2469m)

2633m (3829m)

Was there a waiting list?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

**Figures in brackets give the corresponding cut-off distances by the first week of September. Due to waiting list movement, cut-off distances for all schools usually increase between National Offer Day in March and the start of the school year.