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In 2026-27, The Bishop David Brown 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 2025-26: the last place went to an applicant living 2.46 miles from the school. We hold 1 year of published distances for this school.
In 2026-27, The Bishop David Brown School received 342 applications for 150 places — around 2.3 per place. 116 named it as a first preference, or about 0.8 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 150 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | All offered | 150 | 342 | 116 |
| 2025-26 | 2.46 mi | 150 | 356 | 113 |
| 2024-25 | All offered | 150 | 399 | 143 |
| 2023-24 | — | 211 offered | 410 | 150 |
| 2022-23 | — | 235 offered | 310 | 101 |
| 2021-22 | — | 234 offered | 275 | 90 |
| 2020-21 | — | 172 offered | 225 | 72 |
| 2019-20 | — | 213 offered | 242 | 77 |
| 2018-19 | — | 207 offered | 225 | 68 |
| 2017-18 | — | 195 offered | 252 | 85 |
| 2016-17 | — | 152 offered | 257 | 89 |
| 2015-16 | — | 165 offered | 270 | 105 |
| 2014-15 | — | 185 offered | 261 | 100 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15 and 2015-16 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, The Bishop David Brown School, before it converted.
2014-15 and 2015-16 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, The Bishop David Brown School (URN 125266): 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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