Year 7 Admission Arrangements
Admission arrangements for academies are approved by the Secretary of State for the Department of Education as part of an Academy’s funding agreement. These arrangements have been updated in accordance with the 2022 School Admissions Code.
In September 2025 the School will admit 154 girls. The School’s published admission number (PAN) is 154.
If the school is oversubscribed, after the admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan where the school is named in the Plan, priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the criteria set out below:
Children who are looked after or children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order, including those who appear to the Academy Trust to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions under Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989.
Students with a sister already at the school (Years 7-11) or a brother or sister in King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls Sixth Form Centre, who will still be on roll at the time the sibling enters the school.
Students who live nearest the school (calculated on the basis of a straight line measurement between home and school).
Waiting lists are maintained until the end of each academic year for admissions and children will be ranked in the same order as the criteria listed above.
The school continues to be heavily over-subscribed. In 2023, the last student admitted lived 2042m from the school.
At post-sixteen level, the Sixth Form Centre (approximately 240 students) is open access and welcomes both male and female applicants from across the City and outside Birmingham.
Separate admissions criteria operate for the King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls Sixth Form Centre. Admission is based on an assessment of the students’ potential to benefit from the curriculum and facilities offered by the school.
In the event of over-subscription, preference will be given to students from King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls School, then looked after or previously looked after children (in public care), then siblings, and then those who live nearest the school.
Timeline for Entry in September 2025
July 2024
If you live in Birmingham, you will have received information on the secondary transfer process from us through your child’s Birmingham primary school or via post if your child attends a primary school outside Birmingham. If you have not received any literature, please contact the Children’s Information and Advice Service on 0121 303 1888 or visit the following website: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20119/school_admissions/1778/apply_for_a_secondary_school_year_7_place/3
If you live outside Birmingham but wish to apply for a Birmingham School or Academy, you must apply to your own Local Authority (i.e. The Council to which you pay your Council Tax).
September 2024
The open evening for primary school pupils this year will take place on Wednesday 25th September 2024 from 5pm – 7pm. There will also be the opportunity to visit the school during the school day during the same week.
3rd March 2025
Birmingham Admissions:
If you applied online and provided an email address, Birmingham City Council will email you on 3 March 2025 to tell you which secondary school your child has been offered. They cannot guarantee the exact time you will receive your email as this depends on your service provider. However, they expect you to receive your offer email by 4pm on Monday 3 March 2025.
They will also send you a formal offer letter that will be posted by 1st class post on 3 March 2025. Please allow at least three working days for your letter to arrive.
The offer letter will explain how to accept or refuse the offer that has been made.
Please do not contact Birmingham City Council or King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls before you receive the notification of your child’s school place. The School Admissions team will be unable to inform you by telephone what secondary school has been offered to your child until Monday 10 March 2025
Sandwell Admissions:
For applicants who applied online you will receive an email to the email address provided at the time of application during the course of this day. Please check your junk/spam mail as it is possible it may be delivered here. The email address it will be delivered from is ECS Adtra. This is not a monitored email address so do not reply to this as it will not get responded to. If you made a paper application, your letter will be posted 2nd class on this date and should arrive within 5 working days.
Accepting or refusing a school place?
Birmingham Admissions:
The formal offer letter will explain how to accept or refuse the offer that has been made.
The deadline for acceptances is 21 March 2025.
You are strongly encouraged to accept the offer, so your child has a guaranteed place for September.
If you do not accept the place that has been offered to your child by 21 March 2025, the offer will be withdrawn and may be given to a child on the waiting list.
Accepting the offer will not affect your child’s waiting list position for any of your higher preference schools or influence the outcome of any appeal you may submit.
Sandwell Admissions:
If you wish to contact us to accept or refuse a school place, please email: annual_schooladmissions@sandwell.gov.uk and this will be updated accordingly. Please include your child’s full name, date of birth and the school you are acceptation or refusing.
https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/info/200303/school_admissions/349/apply_for_a_school_place
3rd March 2025
If you have not received a formal offer from the Local Authority by this date, please contact the School Admissions team on 0121 303 1888.
21st March 2025
The deadline for acceptances in 21st March 2025
If you have not accepted the place offered by this date, the offer will be withdrawn and may be offered to the next student on the waiting list.
24th March 2025
You must complete any appeal forms for Birmingham schools and return them by 24th March 2025. Please visit the School Appeals Enquiry page for more information on how to appeal: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20119/school_admissions/207/appeal_against_a_decision_to_refuse_your_child_a_school_place
If you wish to appeal for schools or academies in other local authorities, you should contact the relevant authority to establish their appeal arrangements.
2nd July 2025
Year 6 Induction Day – Primary children visit future secondary school.
September 2025
Monday 1st September and Tuesday 2nd September 2025 will be training days.
Year 7 induction day will be on Wednesday 3rd September 2025.
All other year groups will return to school on Thursday 4th September 2025.
