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In 2026-27, the last place at Philips High School went to an applicant living 4.38 miles from the school. The council's figures don't show whether anyone was refused that year, so it may not have been a cut-off. 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, Philips High School received 435 applications for 182 places — around 2.4 per place. 165 named it as a first preference, or about 0.9 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | — | — | — |
| 2026-27 | 4.38 mi | 182 | 435 | 165 |
| 2025-26 | Last place: “All” | 166 offered | 427 | 146 |
| 2024-25 | 2.75 mi | 176 | 399 | 135 |
| 2023-24 | 2.21 mi | 176 | 469 | 177 |
| 2022-23 | 1.64 mi | 176 | 448 | 200 |
| 2021-22 | 2.00 mi | 176 | 423 | 170 |
| 2020-21 | — | 167 offered | 417 | 133 |
| 2019-20 | — | 174 offered | 440 | 152 |
| 2018-19 | — | 172 offered | 448 | 189 |
| 2017-18 | — | 175 offered | 507 | 199 |
| 2016-17 | — | 177 offered | 475 | 177 |
| 2015-16 | — | 171 offered | 403 | 168 |
| 2014-15 | — | 174 offered | 399 | 152 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Philips High School, before it converted. The applications and first preferences for 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Philips 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, Philips High School (URN 105360): 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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