Admission criteria
Solihull community schools and voluntary-controlled schools use these criteria for admission. Some academies also use these admission criteria.
Children with a statement of special educational needs that names the school will be offered a place at that school. This will reduce the number of places at the school.
If there are more applications than places available places will be offered in this order:
| Priority 1 |
Children in the care of a local authority (looked after children) |
| Priority 2 |
Children who normally live in the catchment area of the school |
| Priority 3 |
Children who have an older brother or sister at the school at the same time |
| Priority 4 |
Children living outside the catchment area |
For priority group 2, if there are more children wanting places than there are places available, we will offer places to children living in the catchment area in the following order.
- Children who have an older brother or sister at the school at the same time
- Children going to one of the linked primary schools at the time of the application (secondary applications only)
- Children living nearest the school, measured in a straight line from home to school
Children who have applied for their catchment-area school, but could not be given a place, will be given priority 2 for the community school (if any) they showed a preference for after the catchment-area school.
For priority groups 3 and 4, when there are more children than places available, those living nearest the school (measured in a straight line from home to school) will be offered places first.
We do not have a 'feeder system' where pupils from specific primary schools automatically get places at particular secondary schools, or pupils attending a school's nursery get a place in Reception at the same school.
Children living outside the borough but going to a primary school in Solihull are not guaranteed a place at a Solihull secondary school and should get advice from their local council.