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Your home against how far places went at each school, in the years councils have published. A record of what happened, not a promise: children with higher priority, such as siblings, come first. Free for the newest year.

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We list every state school near it (primaries within 2 miles, secondaries within 6) with the last distance a place was offered on offer day, beside yours.

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your home was inside how far places wentplaces stopped short of your homeeveryone who applied was offered a placeabout the same distance, or no distance held: we can't tell

Last place offered is the council's figure: the distance from the school of the last child offered a place on offer day, in that year.
This home is our straight line from the postcode's centre. The council measures its own way, often the walking route from the front door, so its figure for your home may differ.
Siblings, children in care, catchment areas and faith can come before distance. The last distance is where places ran out that year, whatever the rule that gave the last one.
Where we hold no figures we say we can't tell, and what to ask the council.

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Where this comes from

Each council's offer-day figures, year by year; DfE applications and offers; the catchment maps the councils publish. Of the 4,654 school intakes where DfE's latest figures show more first choices than places, we hold offer-day figures for 2,910 (63%), and a last distance or a year when nobody was refused for 2,320 (50%). For the rest we say we can't tell.How we know →

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.

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