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In every published year (2024-25–2025-26), Bishop Challoner Catholic School offered all applicants a place on national offer day — no distance cut-off applied. Past rounds don't guarantee a place, but on this record every applicant received an offer. The offers by preference for 2024-25 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Bishop Challoner Catholic School, before it converted.
In 2026-27, Bishop Challoner Catholic School received 181 applications for 270 places — around 0.7 per place. 61 named it as a first preference, or about 0.2 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 270 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | — | 270 | 181 | 61 |
| 2025-26 | All offered | 210 | 217 | 67 |
| 2024-25 | All offered | 210 | 279 | 100 |
| 2023-24 | — | 159 offered | 150 | 37 |
| 2022-23 | — | 128 offered | 186 | 58 |
| 2021-22 | — | 104 offered | 226 | 68 |
| 2020-21 | — | 109 offered | 240 | 83 |
| 2019-20 | — | 129 offered | 238 | 94 |
| 2018-19 | — | 116 offered | 244 | 84 |
| 2017-18 | — | 140 offered | 282 | 100 |
| 2016-17 | — | 132 offered | 263 | 85 |
| 2015-16 | — | 141 offered | 287 | 97 |
| 2014-15 | — | 116 offered | 245 | 94 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Bishop Challoner Catholic School, before it converted. The applications, first preferences and offers by preference for 2024-25 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Bishop Challoner Catholic School, before it converted.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Bishop Challoner Catholic School (URN 100978): 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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