Admissions

Determined Admissions Arrangements 2021
Determined Admissions Arrangements 2022
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Department for Education Number: 330 6905
Published Admission Number: 150
Number on roll (all ages): 832

How to apply for Year 7 in September 2022

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

Over 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)’.

Fair access protocol

The academy complies with Birmingham local authority’s Fair Access Protocol (FAP). The purpose of Fair Access Protocols is to ensure that – outside the normal admissions round – unplaced children, especially the most vulnerable, are found and offered a place quickly so that the amount of time any child is out of school is kept to the minimum. This is why every local authority is required to have in place a Fair Access Protocol, developed in partnership with local schools.

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.

Appeals Procedure

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 secondary education admissions

Admission number

• From September 2020: 150
• From September 2018: 180
• Until September 2018: 150

• Year 7 – 150
• Year 8 – 180
• Year 9 – 180
• Year 10 – 150
• Year 11 – 150

Determined Admissions Arrangements 2022
Admissions Arrangements 2021
E-ACT-Supplementary Information Form
Appeals Procedure