Secondary school transfer day - offers at 1 March 2023

Published: Wednesday, 1st March 2023

Pupils will today find out which secondary school they will attend in September. This year, 71% of pupils have been offered their first preference and over 95% one of their preferences.

Birmingham pupils

15,107    Birmingham pupils applied to transfer to secondary school down from 15,214 in 2022. 

14,803 (97.99 %)  Number of applications received on-line (down 0.51%) * 
73,595    Total number of preferences submitted (down 665) 
14,449     Applicants offered one of their chosen preferences 
653 (4.32%)    Offered a school place that was not one of their preferences (down 0.67%)
1,173   Offered a school outside of Birmingham compared to 1364 in 2022

Total Preferences offered

No. 2023

% 2023

No. 2022

% 2022

% Difference from 2022

First

10,828

71.68

10,771

70.80

+0.88

Second

1,981

13.11

1,990

13.08

+0.03

Third

805

5.33

844

5.55

-0.22

Fourth

426

2.82

417

2.74

-0.08

Fifth

251

1.66

254

1.67

-0.01

Sixth

158

1.05

166

1.09

-0.04

Total

14,449

95.65

14,442

94.93

+0.72

 

 

* The 2.01% total of those applications not received online were from:
- Applications ‘adopted’ from other Local Authorities or Paper Applications sent (132)
- EHCPs received as an internal file transfer (172) 

 

Extra district pupils 


1,759    pupils who live in another local authority applied for a place at a Birmingham school (up 226)
3,146    preferences were expressed (up 310)
 615      pupils who live in another local authority who applied for a Birmingham school were offered one of their preferences (down 2.09% from 568)

 

Total Preferences offered

2023

2023%

2022

2022%

% Difference from 2022

First

392

22.28

382

24.92

-2.64

Second

125

7.11

93

6.07

+1.04

Third

68

3.86

56

3.65

+0.21

Fourth

17

0.97

26

1.70

-0.73

Fifth

11

0.63

10

0.65

-0.02

Sixth

2

0.11

1

0.07

+0.04

Total

615

34.96

568

37.05

-2.09

 

The 34.96% figure above shows the percentage of pupils who live in another Local Authority, who applied for a Birmingham School and received one of their preferences (out of a total of 1,759 applications).

 

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