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We hold no published cut-off distance for The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School. The council's note for each year is in the table below.
In 2026-27, The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School received 662 applications for 128 places — around 5.2 per place. 244 named it as a first preference, or about 1.9 first choices per place.
The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School has an upcoming open event: tour on Monday, 2 November 2026. Seeing the school in person is the best way to judge whether the cut-off numbers above should worry you.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 128 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | — | 128 | 662 | 244 |
| 2025-26 | Catholic Boys (B5 - rand… | 124 offered | 733 | 253 |
| 2024-25 | — | 128 | 657 | 218 |
| 2023-24 | — | 123 offered | 716 | 238 |
| 2022-23 | — | 121 offered | 767 | 297 |
| 2021-22 | — | 122 offered | 865 | 310 |
| 2020-21 | — | 122 offered | 939 | 353 |
| 2019-20 | — | 119 offered | 961 | 343 |
| 2018-19 | — | 118 offered | 1015 | 381 |
| 2017-18 | — | 119 offered | 943 | 379 |
| 2016-17 | — | 115 offered | 874 | 357 |
| 2015-16 | — | 114 offered | 872 | 369 |
| 2014-15 | — | 118 offered | 842 | 387 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15 and 2015-16 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School, before it converted.
2014-15 and 2015-16 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School (URN 100506): 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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