Secondary school offers in Birmingham: offer day 2027

National Offer Day Monday 1 March 2027 · 85 secondary schools · first-choice odds, waiting lists and appeals

How likely is a first choice here?

For September 2026 entry, 75.7% of families living in Birmingham were offered their first-choice secondary school, against 83.6% across England. 374 families (2.6%) were offered none of the schools they named. Birmingham ranks 35 of 150 councils in England, hardest first (see every council).

30 of its 85 secondary schools had more first-choice applications than places.

The most sought-after, by first-choice applications per place offered: Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Birmingham (3.5 per place), Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East (3.0 per place), King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (2.2 per place; grammar, 11+ needed), Eden Boys' School, Birmingham (2.1 per place), King Edward VI Five Ways School (2.1 per place; grammar, 11+ needed).

If you didn't get your first choice

1. Accept the place you were offered by the date in your offer letter. Accepting it does not affect a waiting list or an appeal, and a place that isn't accepted can be withdrawn.
2. Get on the waiting lists you want. Every school must keep one until at least 31 December of the year your child starts. It is ranked by the school's admission rules, not by when you joined, so a family moving closer can go above you. Some councils add you automatically for schools you ranked higher than the one offered; your offer letter says which.
3. Decide whether to appeal. You can appeal for every school that refused your child. You get at least 20 school days from the offer to lodge it, and on-time appeals must be heard within 40 school days of that deadline. The figures below show how often appeals succeed here.
4. Look at schools that took lower preferences. These are the likeliest to have room now.

Schools that took children who ranked them lower

For September 2026 entry these 54 schools offered more places than they had first-choice applications, so some went to families who put them second or lower. They are the likeliest to have room after offer day; ask Birmingham or the school.

• Archbishop Ilsley Catholic School Birmingham
• Arena Academy Birmingham
• Ark Boulton Academy Birmingham
• Ark Kings Academy Birmingham
• Ark Victoria Academy Birmingham
• Bartley Green School Birmingham
• Bishop Challoner Catholic College Birmingham
• BOA Digital Technologies Academy Birmingham
• Bordesley Green Girls' School & Sixth Form Birmingham
• Bournville School Birmingham
• Broadway Academy Birmingham
• Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School Birmingham
• Christ Church, Church of England Secondary Academy Birmingham
• City Academy Birmingham
• Cockshut Hill School Birmingham
• Colmers School and Sixth Form College Birmingham
• Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School Birmingham
• E-ACT North Birmingham Academy Birmingham
• E-ACT Shenley Academy Birmingham
• Erdington Academy Birmingham
• Fairfax Sutton Coldfield
• Fortis Academy Birmingham
• George Dixon Academy Birmingham
• Hall Green School Birmingham
• Hamstead Hall Academy Birmingham
• Harborne Academy Birmingham
• Hillcrest School and Sixth Form Centre Birmingham
• Hodge Hill College Birmingham
• Hodge Hill Girls' School Birmingham
• Holte School Birmingham
• Holy Trinity Catholic School Birmingham
• Holyhead School Birmingham
• Jewellery Quarter Academy Birmingham
• King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls Birmingham
• Kings Heath Secondary School Birmingham
• Lift Four Dwellings Secondary Birmingham
• Lift Greenwood Birmingham
• Lordswood Boys' School Birmingham
• Moseley School and Sixth Form Birmingham
• Ninestiles, an Academy Birmingham
• Rockwood Academy Birmingham
• Saltley Academy Birmingham
• Selly Park Girls' School Birmingham
• Small Heath Leadership Academy Birmingham
• St Edmund Campion Catholic School Birmingham
• St John Wall Catholic School Birmingham
• St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School Birmingham
• Star King Solomon Academy Birmingham
• Swanshurst School Birmingham
• The Royal Sutton School Sutton Coldfield
• Tile Cross Academy Birmingham
• Turves Green Boys' School Birmingham
• Washwood Heath Academy Birmingham
• Waverley School Birmingham

Every secondary school: demand for 2026 entry

Sorted by first-choice applications per place, the most contested first.

Places offered is the number of offers made on national offer day, and first choices offered the share of families who put the school first and got it (Department for Education, September 2026 entry).

Appeals in Birmingham

Secondary school appeals across all of Birmingham, from the Department for Education. Appeals are not published school by school. Across England in 2025/26, 19.5% of 27,084 secondary appeals heard were upheld. How appeal odds differ between councils.

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