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In 2026-27, Small Heath Leadership Academy offered every applicant a place on national offer day, so no distance cut-off applied that year. We hold 1 earlier year of published distances for this school.
In 2026-27, Small Heath Leadership Academy received 777 applications for 220 places offered — around 3.5 per place offered. 137 named it as a first preference, or about 0.6 first choices per place offered.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 240 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | All offered | 220 offered | 777 | 137 |
| 2025-26 | All offered | 237 offered | 846 | 148 |
| 2024-25 | 5.41 mi | 239 offered | 811 | 166 |
| 2023-24 | All offered | 240 offered | 779 | 128 |
| 2022-23 | — | 240 offered | 793 | 133 |
| 2021-22 | — | 225 offered | 789 | 157 |
| 2020-21 | — | 239 offered | 941 | 141 |
| 2019-20 | — | 236 offered | 858 | 123 |
| 2018-19 | — | 237 offered | 1160 | 128 |
| 2017-18 | — | 239 offered | 1184 | 140 |
| 2016-17 | — | 205 offered | 1025 | 174 |
| 2015-16 | — | 210 offered | 1222 | 273 |
| 2014-15 | — | 210 offered | 1236 | 284 |
12 earlier years of Year 7 figures
Last distance offered, places, applications and first preferences for Year 7 entry, 2014-15 to 2025-26, where the council published them, are part of Pro.
Verified from official sources across all four UK nations — when a figure isn't confirmed, we show nothing, never a guess.The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Small Heath School, before it converted.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Small Heath School (URN 103548): every figure for those years is that school's.
How to read this: the last distance offered is an outcome of each admission round — how far from the school the final offer reached after places were allocated under the published criteria. It is not a catchment boundary and it moves every year with sibling numbers, birth-year cohort size and application patterns.
Figures come from the local authority's published allocation data. Some councils publish the National Offer Day figure, which can understate the final September position after waiting-list movement — always confirm with the admissions authority before relying on a single year.
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