Freedom of Information

Enquiry Number - FS107212770

Request and Response:

Q1: List all secondary, middle and upper schools in and whether they were oversubscribed, or not oversubscribed, on national offer day 2019 (1 March). Please include each school’s Unique Reference Number (URN), DfE code, and/or address/postcode to allow identification of each relevant school without ambiguity.

A1: See table 1 below.

Table 1 - oversubscribed schools below are marked with *

Distance 2019/20 School Name (all straight line) Bristnall Hall * 0.81 * N/A (Use banding system) College of Science N/A N/A * 1.73 Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy* 1.18 Perryfields High School N/A Phoenix Collegiate N/A Q3 Academy- Great Barr* 1.13 Q3 Academy- Langley* 1.08 Q3 Academy - N/A RSA Academy* 1.56 * N/A (Use banding system) Shireland Collegiate Academy* N/A (Use banding system) St Michael’s Church of High School* 0.94 Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School* 1.1 Collegiate* 1.97 Wodensborough Ormiston Academy N/A * 0.671 (Non-Catchment)

[IL0: UNCLASSIFIED] Q2: The total number of places offered at each school on national offer day 2019?

A2: See table 2 below.

Table 2

Waiting list School DfE URN Offered on offer day 4129 133261 190 154 George Salter Academy 6907 104019 270 145 Holly Lodge High School College of 4138 103976 300 22 Science Oldbury Academy 4110 132231 330 0 Ormiston Forge Academy 4000 132140 325 23 Ormiston Sandwell Community 6910 131591 240 60 Academy Perryfields High School 4111 103974 220 0 6908 131178 210 203 4003 137673 240 180 4006 140136 311 0 RSA Academy 6909 131212 240 46 Held by the Sandwell Academy 6905 103997 200 Academy Shireland Collegiate Academy 6906 104012 250 157 St Michael's Church of England High 4500 103977 270 83 School Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School 4600 103978 150 45 4028 131673 334 0 West Bromwich Collegiate 175 50

Wodensborough Ormiston Academy 4002 135234 232 0 Wood Green Academy 4024 131943 260 250

Q3 to Q5 apply to oversubscribed schools identified in A1 only.

Q3: The number of on-time applicants refused a place, at each individual school, who were not offered a place at any higher preference school? By this we mean the number of unsuccessful on-time applicants remaining on each school’s waiting list on offer day.

A3: See table 2 above.

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Q4: The admission criterion under which the last successful applicant was admitted on offer day.

A4: All successful last applicants were offered on the basis of distance for all oversubscribed schools.

Q5: The home-to-school distance of the last successful applicant, assuming distance was used to allocate this place.

A5: See table 1 above.

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