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Distance depends on the band here
Thomas Telford University Technical College admits by banding: applicants are placed into bands and each band is filled separately, so there is no single last-offer distance. Each band has its own, and which one applies depends on your child's assessment — so one number could not answer this for every child.
How the bands work: If there are more than 150 applicants into Year 7 they will be tested using a NFER (National Foundation of Education Research) Non-Verbal Reasoning Test (NVR) and placed into five ability bands with the same number of places in each band. Bands will be ordered 1 to 5 with 5 being the highest. All children will be placed in one of the bands and an equal number of children will be taken from each. No child can fail this test. If the number of applicants sitting the NVR test is not a multiple of 5 then those extra 1, 2, 3 or 4 children will go into bands 1, 2, 3 or 4 respectively. If students achieve the same score on the border of two bands they will all go into the lower band. Maintaining an equal allocation of places in the five ability bands will always be the determining factor when applying the oversubscription criteria.
Your local authority’s admissions booklet publishes the cut-off for each band. The full ranked criteria are on the Admissions tab.
When there are more applications than places for 2026-27 (Year 7), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.
If two applications tie: If there are a limited number of spaces available and we cannot distinguish between applicants using the above criteria, for example children who live an equal distance from the UTC then the available spaces will be randomly selected by drawing lots.
A child with an Educational Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which names the school will be admitted before the numbered criteria are applied within each band; this may reduce the number of places available from each band. Preference is not given in favour of siblings or those with medical conditions.
Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.
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