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In every published year (2023-24–2026-27), The Excelsior Academy offered all applicants a place on national offer day — no distance cut-off applied. Past rounds don't guarantee a place, but on this record every applicant received an offer.
In 2026-27, The Excelsior Academy received 250 applications for 180 places — around 1.4 per place. 77 named it as a first preference, or about 0.4 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 180 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | By ability band | 180 | 250 | 77 |
| 2025-26 | By ability band | 180 | 310 | 70 |
| 2024-25 | By ability band | 148 offered | 397 | 63 |
| 2023-24 | By ability band | 164 offered | 422 | 62 |
| 2022-23 | — | 189 offered | 541 | 82 |
| 2021-22 | — | 172 offered | 569 | 95 |
| 2020-21 | — | 175 offered | 763 | 111 |
| 2019-20 | — | 186 offered | 744 | 96 |
| 2018-19 | — | 186 offered | 831 | 113 |
| 2017-18 | — | 191 offered | 914 | 125 |
| 2016-17 | — | 215 offered | 906 | 132 |
| 2015-16 | — | 177 offered | 810 | 111 |
| 2014-15 | — | 190 offered | 770 | 99 |
The Excelsior Academy 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, 2023-24 to 2026-27, 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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