Whitefriars School: last distance offered & admissions history

In 2026-27, the last place at Whitefriars School went to an applicant living 2.30 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.

Whitefriars School by the numbers

In 2026-27, Whitefriars School received 179 applications for 89 places offered — around 2.0 per place offered. 83 named it as a first preference, or about 0.9 first choices per place offered.

Reception entry

Year	Last distance offered	Places	Applications	1st preferences
2027-28	—	90	—	—
2026-27	2.30 mi	89 offered	179	83
2025-26	—	90 offered	176	76
2024-25	2.37 mi	90 offered	214	83
2023-24	—	89 offered	215	71
2022-23	1.30 mi	90 offered	228	90
2021-22	—	79 offered	200	63
2020-21	—	90 offered	218	86
2019-20	—	90 offered	265	99
2018-19	—	78 offered	193	66
2017-18	—	89 offered	201	89
2016-17	—	90 offered	186	81
2015-16	—	90 offered	159	63
2014-15	—	90 offered	176	58

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 (Reception) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Whitefriars Community School, before it converted.

2014-15 (Reception) was the admissions round of its predecessor, Whitefriars Community School (URN 102184): every figure for that year is that school's.

Year 7 entry

Year	Last distance offered	Places	Applications	1st preferences
2027-28	—	150	—	—
2026-27	—	60	159	23
2025-26	—	60	182	30
2024-25	1.51 mi	60	274	41
2023-24	0.87 mi	60	279	48
2022-23	—	63 offered	293	58
2021-22	—	92 offered	236	40
2020-21	—	92 offered	232	42
2019-20	—	93 offered	312	66
2018-19	—	93 offered	271	51
2017-18	—	86 offered	302	61
2016-17	—	62 offered	204	36
2015-16	—	7 offered	208	27

9 earlier years of Year 7 figures, 2015-16 to 2023-24, are part of Pro.

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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