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Harris Academy Orpington admits by ability band: each band's places are offered separately, so no single last distance applies to the school. We hold the council's published band table for 1 year (2025-26), below.
In 2026-27, Harris Academy Orpington received 216 applications for 120 places — around 1.8 per place. 73 named it as a first preference, or about 0.6 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 120 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | — | 120 | 216 | 73 |
| 2025-26 | By ability band | 110 offered | 178 | 57 |
| 2024-25 | — | 144 offered | 211 | 75 |
| 2023-24 | — | 148 offered | 172 | 57 |
| 2022-23 | — | 168 offered | 153 | 45 |
| 2021-22 | — | 130 offered | 164 | 69 |
| 2020-21 | — | 120 offered | 167 | 53 |
| 2019-20 | — | 180 offered | 306 | 116 |
| 2018-19 | — | 206 offered | 298 | 93 |
| 2017-18 | — | 169 offered | 283 | 108 |
| 2016-17 | — | 186 offered | 292 | 133 |
| 2015-16 | — | 193 offered | 308 | 125 |
| 2014-15 | — | 203 offered | 350 | 155 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, The Priory School.
2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, The Priory School (URN 138114): every figure for those years is that school's.
Harris Academy Orpington admits by ability band: each band's places are offered separately, so each band has its own figures and no single last distance applies to the school. The council's table for each year shows how places went in each band.
Year 7 offers band by band
How many places each ability band was offered, and how far offers reached in each where the council published it, for Year 7 entry, 2025-26, 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.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.
At a school that admits by ability band, applicants are placed in bands and each band's places are offered separately, so the council publishes figures for each band rather than one last distance for the school.
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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