We use a combination of POLAR4, IMD and ACORN statistics to determine whether a neighbourhood has a low rate of progression to higher education and/or a high level of socio-economic deprivation.


A postcode lookup for POLAR4 is publicly available at: 


https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analysis/young-participation-by-area/search-by-postcode/


 Students who are in POLAR4 quintiles 1 and 2 will meet our neighbourhood criteria.


Please note that even if you do not fall into these POLAR4 quintiles, you may still meet the criteria based on IMD or ACORN scores.