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Slough Consortium: cut-off trends

How far the 2025-entry allocation actually reached at each of the four Slough grammar schools — a single-year snapshot, to be expanded into a multi-year trend as more data comes in.

Unlike Buckinghamshire's single National Offer Day distance published for every school on one common measure, the Slough Consortium's four schools don't rank on distance alone — each applies its own layered oversubscription criteria first (a catchment radius, postcode Priority Areas, a faith-category order, or a feeder-school/rank-order sequence), so "how far the allocation reached" is really a mix of a rank score and, where relevant, a distance. We currently hold only the most recently published round — 2025 entry, information as of 3 March 2025 — so treat this as a single year's outcome, not a multi-year trend. We'll expand this table to match the Buckinghamshire format once 2023 and 2024 figures are confirmed from a primary Consortium or school source.

Published allocation outcomes for 2025 entry (information as of 3 March 2025) — not a guaranteed threshold for future years
SchoolPANEligible applicants (111+)Rank-score cut-offDistance where it applied
Herschel Grammar School150862116 (within the 4-mile catchment)Catchment fixed at 4 miles from the school gate
Langley Grammar School180805Priority Area 1: down to 113 · Priority Area 2: down to 118Postcode-based Priority Areas, not a straight-line radius
St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School150689All eligible in Categories 1–7; Category 8 by scoreCategory 8 (lowest, other faiths) capped at 8.805 miles
Upton Court Grammar School1651,075Rank-order tranche: down to 121Rank-order tranche reached as far as 14.413 miles; final distance-only tranche capped at 1.427 miles

Rank-score cut-offs are standardised 11+ scores (eligibility threshold 111; not comparable across schools as a ranking, only as each school's own internal cut-off that year). Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies") measurements as defined in each school's own admissions arrangements. Langley's Priority Area 3 — the tier that reaches HA1–HA6 — doesn't have a separately published cut-off; the figures shown are for Areas 1 and 2 only, which is itself informative about how few Area 3 places are likely to be offered in a typical year. See the main Slough Consortium page for the underlying admissions criteria these numbers come from.