Is there an easy way to see furthest distance offered

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Hoping someone can help.... Is there anyway I can see what was the furthest distance offered by a selection of schools for the last few years?

We are looking to move house and I'm trying to work out the best likelihood secondary school in the area we want to move to. Is there anywhere you can see this for various schools or do I need to contact each school individually?

yes, it's on the council websites

The council website will have a spreadsheet with all schools on it.

I don’t know, but the data might not help you. Further away offers might have got in under another category - for example LAC or previously LAC child.

Thank you. Ah ok - so it will just give a figure for furthest distance even if that's a sibling or LAC - not by category? Can you get that info by category?

Our council gives the data per category so you definitely would be able to see it if you were looking here… I would assume all councils supply the same info?

The information published varies by LA. Some don't publish this information at all, so you would need to ask.

I'm not sure of the relevance of furthest distance by category. If all siblings are always admitted, for example, the distance of the furthest sibling is irrelevant. For most schools, what you need is the last category and distance for the last child admitted.

Thank you. I was thinking the category mattered because if the greatest distance is 2 miles but that was a sibling/LAC/medical admission etc and everyone in those categories has a place, the distance on the 'distance' category could be less than that? Ie all siblings are admitted (furthest 2 miles) then the remaining places are allocated on distance but that is only 1 mile?

The category and distance for the last child admitted gives you everything you need to know. If category 3 is siblings, say, and everyone up to 2 miles is admitted, and then category 4 is everyone else and they only admit up to 1.25 miles, the category and distance for the last child is category 2, 1.25 miles.

If you say which area you're in, people might be able to point you to it.

My local authority publishes it online, but also asks schools to put it on their website. Furthest distance offered is only published for applicants who got in via distance criteria, not other criteria.