Secondary school intake – offers as at 3 March 2014
Today is national day of offer of secondary school places. Birmingham City Council's school admissions and pupil placements team has offered advice and guidance to parents/carers and pupils and has processed over 15,000 applications for secondary school places.
This year the number of parents/carers who have been offered their first preferred school was 70.3% and almost 94% of parents/carers have been offered one of their preferred schools.
See below for full details:
Birmingham pupils
14,000 Birmingham pupils applied to transfer to secondary school
53,272 preferences were expressed
11,332 (83.8%) applications were made on-line*
• 9,842 (70.3%) were offered their first preferred school
• 1,785 (12.8%) were offered their second preferred school
• 710 (5.1%) were offered their third preferred school
• 416 (2.9%) were offered their fourth preferred school
• 228 (1.6%) were offered their fifth preferred school
• 139 (1%) were offered their sixth preferred school
13,120 pupils (93.7%) were offered one of their preferred schools
880 pupils (6.3%) were offered a school that was not one of their preferences
1,555 (11.1%) were offered a school outside Birmingham
*482 SEN pupils cannot apply online
Extra-district Pupils
1,796 pupils who live in another local authority applied for a place at a Birmingham school
3,255 preferences were expressed
• 511 (28.5%) were offered their first preferred school
• 117 (6.5%) were offered their second preferred school
• 49 (2.7%) were offered their third preferred school
• 18 (1%) were offered their fourth preferred school
• 8 (0.4%) were offered their fifth preferred school
• 1 (0.1%) were offered their sixth preferred school
Of the 1,796 pupils who live in another authority and submitted a preference for a Birmingham School or Academy, 704 (39.2%) pupils were offered a Birmingham school.
For further information visit: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/schooladmissions
