Distance Trends

Applications climbing and the radius shrinking every single year — the clearest, most consistent tightening trend of any school on this list.

Demand rising every year, but the radius isn't moving in a straight line — 2025 was its tightest year, 2026 eased off slightly. Still meaningfully tighter than 2024.

Bouncing in a narrow band (0.64–0.76 miles) with no clear direction across three years — the most predictable school on this list.

Radius has widened every year despite roughly flat demand — a genuine three-year trend, not a one-off wobble.

Demand falling three years running; by 2026 distance wasn't even the deciding factor — non-distance priorities (siblings, etc.) filled every place.

A Voluntary Aided school — Harrow's council allocation letters don't cover it, but the school publishes its own furthest-offer-distance figures directly. Only two years are available (the page doesn't go back further, or at least not within what we could retrieve), so this is a slighter trend than the three-year picture used elsewhere on this page: the radius narrowed by a tenth of a mile between 2024/25 and 2025/26. Worth revisiting once a 2026/27 figure is published, to see if it's a real direction or just noise.

Went from 29 spare places to completely full in one year, and its radius roughly tripled the year after that. Worth flagging clearly given this is an Outstanding-rated school families increasingly can't assume they'll get into.

Was a real stretch to get into in 2024 — was reaching over 5km — and has opened up fast since. Now has genuine slack.

Full every year, with its radius holding in a fairly stable 1.1–1.6km band — reliably competitive but not trending in either direction.

A small school (30 places) that's full every year, but the radius swings a lot year to year — likely just the effect of a small intake, not a real trend either way.

Full all three years, but 2024 was a struggle to get there — the school had to reach nearly 6km to fill its last places. By 2025 it was filling from under a kilometre out. One of the sharpest tightening trends on this page: from barely scraping together enough applicants to comfortably oversubscribed in a single year.

No stable direction across three years — nearly full one year, half-empty the next. Don't present this as trending either way.

Steadily more spaces unfilled each year — never been full in this data, and the gap keeps growing.

Consistently well undersubscribed across all three years — a genuinely reliable backup preference for a Ruislip application.

Full on faith criteria alone in 2024 and 2025; 2026 is the first year with real spare capacity. One data point, worth watching rather than calling a trend yet.

A Voluntary Aided Catholic school (Diocese of Westminster) — its own admission policy gives priority to baptised Catholic children resident in the Ruislip, Eastcote and Harefield parishes ahead of any distance measure, with reserved places for Eastcote (up to 14) and Harefield (up to 6) applicants specifically. Distance is only ever used as a tie-break within a priority group, so it never appears as a published "furthest offered" figure. What the three years do show clearly: spaces open on National Offer Day have shrunk from 6 in 2024 to effectively none by 2025 — worth knowing if you're applying on a non-Catholic or out-of-parish basis, since categories 8–9 (the ones a family outside the three parishes would fall into) have progressively less room each year.