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In 2026-27, the last place at St James Church of England First School went to an applicant living 3.55 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 4 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 James Church of England First School received 53 applications for 25 places — around 2.1 per place. 25 named it as a first preference, or about 1.0 first choice per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | 2nd round | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | — | 25 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | 3.55 mi | — | 25 | 53 | 25 |
| 2025-26 | 2.87 mi | — | 25 | 54 | 35 |
| 2024-25 | — | — | 24 offered | 30 | 23 |
| 2023-24 | — | — | 18 offered | 36 | 18 |
| 2022-23 | — | — | 26 offered | 41 | 26 |
| 2021-22 | 4.99 mi | — | 25 offered | 54 | 34 |
| 2020-21 | — | 3.21 mi | 23 | 50 | 29 |
| 2019-20 | — | — | 23 | 41 | 28 |
| 2018-19 | — | — | 20 offered | 35 | 20 |
| 2017-18 | — | — | 19 offered | 43 | 19 |
| 2016-17 | — | — | 22 offered | 34 | 21 |
| 2015-16 | 4.58 mi | — | 23 | 39 | 23 |
| 2014-15 | — | — | 15 offered | 19 | 14 |
12 earlier years of Reception figures
Last distance offered, places, applications and first preferences for Reception 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, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 (Reception) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, St James' Church of England Voluntary Controlled First School, before it converted. The applications and first preferences for 2015-16, 2019-20 and 2020-21 (Reception) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, St James' Church of England Voluntary Controlled First School, before it converted.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 (Reception) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, St James' Church of England Voluntary Controlled First School (URN 113761): 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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