How to apply for a place

Determined Admissions Arrangements 2021

Department for Education Number: 330 6905
Published Admission Number: 150
Number on roll (all ages): 875
Number on sixth form roll: 100

How to apply for Year 7 in September 2021

An application must be made online at www.birmingham.gov.uk/schooladmissions or by using a Local Authority Preference Form.

Previous admission pattern at the time of offer of places for Year 7

In the last 5+ years, Heartlands Academy has received more applications than there were places available.

Admission criteria

Where there are more applications than there are places available, places will be allocated based on the following order of priority:

We have adopted the Local Authority’s definitions for: ‘children with a statement of special educational needs’, ‘looked after or previously looked after children’, ‘distance’, ‘sibling’, ‘shared responsibility’ and ‘separating “final qualifier” applications (blocks of flats etc)’.

Waiting lists and appeals

Parents whose children have not been offered their preferred school will be informed of their right of appeal.

Appeals are administered by the Local Authority for this academy. Parents who wish to appeal against the decision to refuse their child admission should contact the Children’s Information and Advice Service on: 0121 303 1888 to request an appeal form. Appeals will be heard by an independent panel.

Children will also be added to the academy’s waiting list in accordance to the over-subscription criteria. The waiting list will be kept until January 2021.

The Department for Education appeals code

For the Department for Education’s admissions appeals code click here.

Information about recent changes to the appeals process can be found here.

Timetable for the secondary school admissions process