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In 2023-24, the last place at Harwich and Dovercourt High School went to an applicant living 6.40 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 1 year of published distances for this school.
In 2026-27, Harwich and Dovercourt High School received 234 applications for 224 places — around 1.0 per place. 205 named it as a first preference, or about 0.9 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 224 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | — | 224 | 234 | 205 |
| 2025-26 | — | 221 offered | 229 | 201 |
| 2024-25 | — | 234 offered | 252 | 226 |
| 2023-24 | 6.40 mi | 211 offered | 224 | 197 |
| 2022-23 | — | 203 offered | 210 | 187 |
| 2021-22 | — | 169 offered | 186 | 156 |
| 2020-21 | — | 188 offered | 201 | 172 |
| 2019-20 | — | 195 offered | 193 | 164 |
| 2018-19 | — | 192 offered | 209 | 173 |
| 2017-18 | — | 188 offered | 223 | 177 |
| 2016-17 | — | 155 offered | 193 | 155 |
| 2015-16 | — | 192 offered | 229 | 186 |
| 2014-15 | — | 178 offered | 219 | 178 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Harwich and Dovercourt High School.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Harwich and Dovercourt High School (URN 137946): 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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