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We hold no published cut-off distance for Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy. The council's note for each year is in the table below.
In 2026-27, Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy received 409 applications for 210 places — around 1.9 per place. 176 named it as a first preference, or about 0.8 first choices per place.
| Year | Last distance offered | Places | Applications | 1st preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | — | 210 | 409 | 176 |
| 2025-26 | — | 210 | 514 | 226 |
| 2024-25 | Academy Trust decision t… | 210 | 455 | 184 |
| 2023-24 | Academy Trust decision t… | 205 offered | 459 | 177 |
| 2022-23 | — | 210 | 384 | 176 |
| 2021-22 | Academy Trust decision t… | 207 offered | 407 | 190 |
| 2020-21 | — | 209 offered | 439 | 196 |
| 2019-20 | — | 208 offered | 447 | 200 |
| 2018-19 | — | 208 offered | 425 | 196 |
| 2017-18 | — | 170 offered | 335 | 156 |
| 2016-17 | — | 148 offered | 350 | 146 |
| 2015-16 | — | 148 offered | 325 | 129 |
| 2014-15 | — | 148 offered | 279 | 115 |
The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15 and 2015-16 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Sports College, before it converted.
2014-15 and 2015-16 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Sports College (URN 104401): 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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