Secondary school places: All the Birmingham secondary schools rated outstanding by Ofsted in 2024

Parents and guardians across the UK will have already applied for their child's place in primary and secondary school for September 2024.

Each school will have an admission criteria, which can help towards the child being offered a place. Admission criteria can differ depending on the school, however criteria can include; catchment area, sibling links, religion (for faith schools), primary school (for feeder schools), and/or passing an entrance exam (for selective schools).

As parents and guardians would have already applied for their desired schools, they will soon find out if their child has secured a place. councils will send offers of secondary schools at the earlier date of Friday, March 1, with Primary school places being sent by Tuesday, April 16.

So with parents set to find out if their children have been offered a place for 2023, we've decided to take a look at

As of February 29, 2024, 14 secondary schools in Birmingham are rated as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted, the top two ranking out of four possible outcomes, with 'inadequate' being the lowest mark. See if your child's preferred secondary school is featured below.