Secondary school transfer day - offers at 1 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).