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In 2026-27, the last place at St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy went to an applicant living 0.95 miles from the school. St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy ranks faith before distance, so this distance describes children who meet its faith priorities; a family with no faith priority comes after them. We hold 5 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, St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy received 665 applications for 283 places offered — around 2.3 per place offered. 297 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 | — | 290 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | 0.95 mi | 283 offered | 665 | 297 |
| 2025-26 | 0.79 mi | 285 offered | 750 | 306 |
| 2024-25 | 0.53 mi | 285 offered | 779 | 336 |
| 2023-24 | 0.26 mi | 290 | 776 | 339 |
| 2022-23 | 0.75 mi | 290 | 746 | 302 |
| 2021-22 | — | 286 offered | 751 | 297 |
| 2020-21 | — | 288 offered | 780 | 284 |
| 2019-20 | — | 285 offered | 812 | 274 |
| 2018-19 | — | 284 offered | 830 | 329 |
| 2017-18 | — | 287 offered | 950 | 318 |
| 2016-17 | — | 290 offered | 1005 | 351 |
| 2015-16 | — | 290 offered | 900 | 332 |
| 2014-15 | — | 287 offered | 988 | 337 |
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, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, before it converted. The applications and first preferences for 2022-23 and 2023-24 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, before it converted.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College (URN 140569): 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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