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In 2025-26, Meole Brace School 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 2024-25: the last place went to an applicant living 3.46 miles from the school. We hold 1 year of published distances for this school.
In 2026-27, Meole Brace School received 675 applications for 270 places offered — around 2.5 per place offered. 198 named it as a first preference, or about 0.7 first choices per place offered.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 270 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | — | 270 offered | 675 | 198 |
| 2025-26 | All offered | 244 offered | 581 | 156 |
| 2024-25 | 3.46 mi | 270 offered | 629 | 173 |
| 2023-24 | — | 269 offered | 720 | 248 |
| 2022-23 | — | 267 offered | 642 | 207 |
| 2021-22 | — | 267 offered | 599 | 245 |
| 2020-21 | — | 268 offered | 622 | 228 |
| 2019-20 | — | 266 offered | 599 | 229 |
| 2018-19 | — | 240 offered | 566 | 188 |
| 2017-18 | — | 226 offered | 533 | 190 |
| 2016-17 | — | 237 offered | 473 | 200 |
| 2015-16 | — | 238 offered | 481 | 211 |
| 2014-15 | — | 234 offered | 469 | 238 |
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, Meole Brace School, before it converted.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Meole Brace School (URN 123573): 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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