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In 2025-26, the last place at Poole High School went to an applicant living 2.50 miles from the school. We hold 2 years of published distances for this school.
We do not compare these years: we do not hold the criterion the last place went under for every one of them, or it differs between them, so the distances may not be like for like.
In 2026-27, Poole High School received 863 applications for 316 places offered — around 2.7 per place offered. 311 named it as a first preference, or about 1.0 first choice per place offered.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | — | — | — |
| 2026-27 | — | 316 offered | 863 | 311 |
| 2025-26 | 2.50 mi | 325 | 708 | 283 |
| 2024-25 | — | 325 | 691 | 261 |
| 2023-24 | 2.37 mi | 325 | 827 | 348 |
| 2022-23 | — | 322 offered | 795 | 324 |
| 2021-22 | — | 324 offered | 885 | 357 |
| 2020-21 | — | 321 offered | 794 | 359 |
| 2019-20 | — | 325 offered | 819 | 398 |
| 2018-19 | — | 325 offered | 730 | 345 |
| 2017-18 | — | 310 offered | 609 | 247 |
| 2016-17 | — | 321 offered | 626 | 252 |
| 2015-16 | — | 322 offered | 688 | 315 |
| 2014-15 | — | 320 offered | 655 | 309 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Poole High School, before it converted. The applications and first preferences for 2023-24 and 2024-25 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Poole High School, before it converted.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Poole High School (URN 113907): 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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