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In 2026-27, South Wirral High School offered every applicant a place on national offer day, so no distance cut-off applied that year. We hold 1 earlier year of published distances for this school.
In 2026-27, South Wirral High School received 329 applications for 212 places — around 1.6 per place. 164 named it as a first preference, or about 0.8 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | — | 212 | — | — |
| 2026-27 | All offered | 212 | 329 | 164 |
| 2025-26 | All offered | 212 | 347 | 147 |
| 2024-25 | All offered | 191 offered | 360 | 170 |
| 2023-24 | — | 212 | 385 | 191 |
| 2022-23 | 5.30 mi | 212 | 402 | 179 |
| 2021-22 | All offered | 215 offered | 382 | 169 |
| 2020-21 | — | 212 | 271 | 114 |
| 2019-20 | All offered | 174 offered | 329 | 140 |
| 2018-19 | — | 180 offered | 259 | 119 |
| 2017-18 | — | 134 offered | 250 | 104 |
| 2016-17 | — | 149 offered | 208 | 86 |
| 2015-16 | — | 143 offered | 241 | 96 |
| 2014-15 | — | 145 offered | 275 | 119 |
12 earlier years of Year 7 figures
Last distance offered, places, applications and first preferences for Year 7 entry, 2014-15 to 2025-26, where the council published them, are part of Pro.
Verified from official sources across all four UK nations — when a figure isn't confirmed, we show nothing, never a guess.The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, South Wirral High School, before it converted. The places offered, applications, first preferences and offers by preference for 2019-20, 2021-22 and 2024-25 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, South Wirral High School, before it converted. The applications and first preferences for 2020-21, 2022-23 and 2023-24 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, South Wirral High School, before it converted. The applications, first preferences and offers by preference for 2025-26 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, South Wirral High School, before it converted.
2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, South Wirral High School (URN 105107): 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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