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In 2026-27, the last place at The Queen Elizabeth Academy went to an applicant living 4.97 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 4 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, The Queen Elizabeth Academy received 299 applications for 153 places offered — around 2.0 per place offered. 148 named it as a first preference, or about 1.0 first choice per place offered.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 165 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | 4.97 mi | 153 offered | 299 | 148 |
| 2025-26 | 3.89 mi | 160 offered | 296 | 164 |
| 2024-25 | 2.99 mi | 160 offered | 327 | 184 |
| 2023-24 | 2.79 mi | 159 offered | 333 | 180 |
| 2022-23 | — | 150 offered | 300 | 193 |
| 2021-22 | — | 146 offered | 258 | 149 |
| 2020-21 | — | 117 offered | 231 | 140 |
| 2019-20 | — | 150 offered | 279 | 199 |
| 2018-19 | — | 130 offered | 179 | 130 |
| 2017-18 | — | 118 offered | 155 | 112 |
| 2016-17 | — | 110 offered | 133 | 90 |
| 2015-16 | — | 89 offered | 104 | 71 |
| 2014-15 | — | 90 offered | 117 | 79 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Queen Elizabeth School and Sports College, before it converted.
2014-15 (Year 7) was the admissions round of its predecessor, Queen Elizabeth School and Sports College (URN 125768): every figure for that year 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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