Secondary school transfer day - offers at 1 March 2024
Pupils will today find out which secondary school they will attend in September.
Birmingham pupils
15,479 Birmingham Pupils applied to transfer to secondary school up from 15,107 in 2023.
15,118 (97.67%) Number of applications received on-line (down 0.32%) *
74,366 Total number of preferences submitted (up 771)
14,787 Applicants offered one of their chosen preferences
690 (4.46%) Offered a school place that was not one of their preferences (up 0.14%)
1370 Offered a school outside of Birmingham compared to 1173 in 2023
Total preference offered |
No. 2024 |
% 2024 |
No. 2023 |
% 2023 |
% Difference from 2023 |
|
First |
11,061 |
71.46 |
10,828 |
71.68 |
-0.22 |
|
Second |
2,020 |
13.05 |
1,981 |
13.11 |
-0.06 |
|
Third |
853 |
5.51 |
805 |
5.33 |
-0.18 |
|
Fourth |
457 |
2.95 |
426 |
2.82 |
+0.13 |
|
Fifth |
234 |
1.51 |
251 |
1.66 |
-0.15 |
|
Sixth |
162 |
1.05 |
158 |
1.05 |
0 |
|
Total |
14,787 |
95.53 |
14,449 |
95.65 |
-0.4 |
*The 2.33% total of those applications not received online were from:
- Applications ‘adopted’ from other Local Authorities or Paper Applications sent (103)
- EHCPs received as an internal file transfer (258)
Extra district pupils
1785 pupils who live in another local authority applied for a place at a Birmingham school (up 26)
3171 preferences were expressed (up 25)
583 pupils who live in another local authority who applied for a Birmingham school were offered one of their preferences (down 2.30% from 615)
Total Preferences offered |
2024 |
2024% |
2023 |
2023% |
% Difference from 2023 |
|
First |
409 |
22.91 |
392 |
22.28 |
+0.63 |
|
Second |
81 |
4.54 |
125 |
7.11 |
-2.57 |
|
Third |
55 |
3.08 |
68 |
3.86 |
-0.78 |
|
Fourth |
26 |
1.46 |
17 |
0.97 |
+0.49 |
|
Fifth |
9 |
0.50 |
11 |
0.63 |
-0.13 |
|
Sixth |
3 |
0.17 |
2 |
0.11 |
+0.06 |
|
Total |
583 |
32.66 |
615 |
34.96 |
-2.3 |
The 32.66% 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 1,785 applications).
