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In 2024-25, the last place at Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School went to an applicant living 21.67 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. Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School has a religious character and we don't hold its admission arrangements, so we can't tell whether faith comes before distance. 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, Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School received 249 applications for 157 places offered — around 1.6 per place offered. 213 named it as a first preference, or about 1.4 first choices per place offered.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | — | 157 offered | 249 | 213 |
| 2025-26 | — | 157 offered | 235 | 214 |
| 2024-25 | 21.67 mi | 157 offered | 249 | 213 |
| 2023-24 | 24.51 mi | 159 offered | 246 | 212 |
| 2022-23 | Last place: criterion 3 | 158 offered | 236 | 203 |
| 2021-22 | — | 159 offered | 339 | 267 |
| 2020-21 | — | 159 offered | 236 | 206 |
| 2019-20 | — | 159 offered | 208 | 188 |
| 2018-19 | — | 160 offered | 212 | 179 |
| 2017-18 | — | 160 offered | 212 | 179 |
| 2016-17 | — | 122 offered | 176 | 148 |
| 2015-16 | — | 129 offered | 178 | 158 |
| 2014-15 | — | 119 offered | 160 | 148 |
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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