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In 2026-27, Meridian High School offered every applicant a place on national offer day, so no distance cut-off applied that year. We hold 6 earlier years of published distances for this school.
How has the cut-off moved over the years?
Pro shows every year we hold for Meridian High School: 6 years of last distance offered, 2020-21 to 2025-26, with the trend and the range across them.
Verified from official sources across all four UK nations — when a figure isn't confirmed, we show nothing, never a guess.In 2026-27, Meridian High School received 150 applications for 120 places — around 1.3 per place. 85 named it as a first preference, or about 0.7 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 120 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | All offered | 120 | 150 | 85 |
| 2025-26 | 7.63 mi | 106 offered | 148 | 82 |
| 2024-25 | 6.94 mi | 95 offered | 137 | 70 |
| 2023-24 | 6.04 mi | 105 offered | 151 | 75 |
| 2022-23 | 6.22 mi | 102 offered | 125 | 63 |
| 2021-22 | 7.25 mi | 118 offered | 153 | 103 |
| 2020-21 | 6.28 mi | 111 offered | 158 | 88 |
| 2019-20 | — | 154 offered | 167 | 103 |
| 2018-19 | — | 151 offered | 179 | 97 |
| 2017-18 | — | 145 offered | 205 | 113 |
| 2016-17 | — | 107 offered | 186 | 94 |
| 2015-16 | — | 80 offered | 130 | 50 |
| 2014-15 | — | 106 offered | 173 | 84 |
12 earlier years of Year 7 figures, 2014-15 to 2025-26, are part of Pro.
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Meridian High School.
2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Meridian High School (URN 139074): 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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