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In 2023-24, the last place at Q3 Academy Tipton went to an applicant living 2.62 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 1 year of published distances for this school.
In 2026-27, Q3 Academy Tipton received 453 applications for 294 places offered — around 1.5 per place offered. 271 named it as a first preference, or about 0.9 first choices per place offered.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | Furthest distance offere… | 294 offered | 453 | 271 |
| 2025-26 | Furthest distance offere… | 279 offered | 365 | 266 |
| 2024-25 | Furthest distance offere… | 285 offered | 372 | 251 |
| 2023-24 | 2.62 mi | 289 offered | 392 | 262 |
| 2022-23 | — | 296 offered | 396 | 276 |
| 2021-22 | — | 290 offered | 361 | 223 |
| 2020-21 | — | 291 offered | 340 | 204 |
| 2019-20 | — | 288 offered | 290 | 176 |
| 2018-19 | — | 260 offered | 219 | 141 |
| 2017-18 | — | 283 offered | 283 | 191 |
| 2016-17 | — | 277 offered | 299 | 177 |
| 2015-16 | — | 299 offered | 341 | 239 |
| 2014-15 | — | 260 offered | 323 | 210 |
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, The ACE Academy.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, The ACE Academy (URN 139328): 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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