Reception National Offer Day Statistics 2024
Details of the reception national offer day for Birmingham
This article includes reception statistics for September 2024 for the offers made as of 16th April 2024.
Birmingham Pupils for Reception 2024:
- The total number of applications for school places in Birmingham is 12581 (a decrease of 77 applications from 17th April 2023)
- 12465 Birmingham pupils applied online for a Reception place for September 2024 (a decrease of 50 for online applications compared to last year).
- There are an additional 41 SEN (Special Education Needs and Review) & 18 deferred Entry paper applications, a total of 59.
- There were a further 57 Paper Applications (includes those taken over from Other Local Authorities).
- 98.99% of applicants were offered one of their preferences.
Total Preference Offered |
Number |
Shown as a % of Total |
% Difference from 2023 |
|
First |
11511 |
91.49% |
+0.52% |
|
Second |
698 |
5.55% |
-0.49% |
|
Third |
187 |
1.49% |
-0.18% |
|
LA Placed offers |
126 |
1.00% |
+0.06% |
|
Deferred (17) & SEN (41) |
58 |
0.46% |
+0.08% |
|
Total |
12581 |
99.99% * |
|
* One deferred entry child didn’t meet the requirements to be offered a preference School and couldn’t be offered an alternative due to being out of cohort.
489 (3.89%) Birmingham children were offered a school place in neighbouring authorities (-0.02% compared to last year).
Other Local Authority Children Applying to Birmingham Schools:
- 446 pupils who live in another local authority applied for a place at a Birmingham school (+20 compared to last year). The table below shows the percentage of children offered each preference out of the total number of applicants (446).
Total Preferance Offers |
Prefs expressed |
Number offered |
% (pref expressed) |
% Difference from 2023 |
|
First |
247 |
190 |
42.6% |
+0.58% |
|
Second |
151 |
11 |
2.47% |
-1.52% |
|
Third |
151 |
2 |
0.45% |
-1.19% |
|
Other Pref |
90 |
2 |
0.45% |
+0.45% |
|
Total |
639 |
205 |
45.97% |
-1.68% |
