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In 2025-26, the last place at Arnold Hill Spencer Academy went to an applicant living 4.66 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 3 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.
In 2026-27, Arnold Hill Spencer Academy received 722 applications for 270 places — around 2.7 per place. 238 named it as a first preference, or about 0.9 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | — | — | — |
| 2026-27 | — | 270 | 722 | 238 |
| 2025-26 | 4.66 mi | 251 offered | 658 | 194 |
| 2024-25 | 8.68 mi | 272 offered | 679 | 242 |
| 2023-24 | 1.65 mi | 270 offered | 738 | 250 |
| 2022-23 | — | 267 offered | 676 | 237 |
| 2021-22 | — | 274 offered | 627 | 253 |
| 2020-21 | — | 260 offered | 661 | 240 |
| 2019-20 | — | 199 offered | 419 | 179 |
| 2018-19 | — | 259 offered | 562 | 211 |
| 2017-18 | — | 260 offered | 548 | 207 |
| 2016-17 | — | 260 offered | 522 | 196 |
| 2015-16 | — | 242 offered | 509 | 193 |
| 2014-15 | — | 260 offered | 592 | 258 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Arnold Hill Academy.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Arnold Hill Academy (URN 137536): 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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