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In 2026-27, Oulton Academy offered every applicant a place on national offer day, so no distance cut-off applied that year. The last year we hold a distance for is 2025-26: the last place went to an applicant living 4.14 miles from the school. We hold 1 year of published distances for this school.
In 2026-27, Oulton Academy received 547 applications for 264 places offered — around 2.1 per place offered. 231 named it as a first preference, or about 0.9 first choices per place offered.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 270 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | All offered | 264 offered | 547 | 231 |
| 2025-26 | 4.14 mi | 236 offered | 495 | 207 |
| 2024-25 | All offered | 217 offered | 461 | 149 |
| 2023-24 | — | 187 offered | 399 | 143 |
| 2022-23 | — | 201 offered | 420 | 127 |
| 2021-22 | — | 239 offered | 455 | 138 |
| 2020-21 | — | 237 offered | 444 | 147 |
| 2019-20 | — | 220 offered | 405 | 139 |
| 2018-19 | — | 219 offered | 410 | 114 |
| 2017-18 | — | 199 offered | 416 | 130 |
| 2016-17 | — | 178 offered | 385 | 119 |
| 2015-16 | — | 185 offered | 354 | 104 |
| 2014-15 | — | 142 offered | 361 | 102 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Royds School, before it converted.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Royds School (URN 108081): 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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