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In 2024-25, the last place at Pool Hayes Academy went to an applicant living 4.22 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 2 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, Pool Hayes Academy received 319 applications for 241 places offered — around 1.3 per place offered. 128 named it as a first preference, or about 0.5 first choices per place offered.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | — | 241 offered | 319 | 128 |
| 2025-26 | — | 239 offered | 323 | 138 |
| 2024-25 | 4.22 mi | 241 offered | 364 | 161 |
| 2023-24 | 2.17 mi | 234 offered | 391 | 175 |
| 2022-23 | — | 206 offered | 394 | 184 |
| 2021-22 | — | 194 offered | 411 | 207 |
| 2020-21 | — | 189 offered | 356 | 134 |
| 2019-20 | — | 195 offered | 340 | 170 |
| 2018-19 | — | 192 offered | 386 | 221 |
| 2017-18 | — | 209 offered | 385 | 197 |
| 2016-17 | — | 183 offered | 333 | 152 |
| 2015-16 | — | 206 offered | 341 | 182 |
| 2014-15 | — | 180 offered | 316 | 145 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Pool Hayes Arts and Community School, before it converted.
2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Pool Hayes Arts and Community School (URN 104251): 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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