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In 2026-27, Penketh High 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 2.23 miles from the school. We hold 1 year of published distances for this school.
In 2026-27, Penketh High School received 522 applications for 240 places — around 2.2 per place. 180 named it as a first preference, or about 0.8 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 240 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | All offered | 240 | 522 | 180 |
| 2025-26 | Last place: criterion 6 | 220 offered | 548 | 200 |
| 2024-25 | 2.23 mi | 218 offered | 586 | 208 |
| 2023-24 | — | 220 offered | 494 | 131 |
| 2022-23 | — | 215 offered | 456 | 151 |
| 2021-22 | — | 179 offered | 415 | 120 |
| 2020-21 | — | 146 offered | 325 | 120 |
| 2019-20 | — | 171 offered | 352 | 138 |
| 2018-19 | — | 156 offered | 382 | 132 |
| 2017-18 | — | 196 offered | 450 | 150 |
| 2016-17 | — | 225 offered | 530 | 176 |
| 2015-16 | — | 202 offered | 500 | 162 |
| 2014-15 | — | 173 offered | 446 | 170 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Penketh High School.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Penketh High School (URN 139506): 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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