Sixth Form Admissions

Are you ready to take the next step in your education journey? Applications for Sixth Form at King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy are now open!

Application Deadlines:

• Internal students: Applications must be submitted by Friday, 6th December.
• External applicants: Applications are due by Friday, 14th February.

All applicants need to apply via Applicaa. Simply follow the link below to start your application:

For any questions about the process, please contact our Sixth Form team. We look forward to supporting you as you plan for an exciting future!

A limited number of external admissions is anticipated each year into Year 12. For entry into Year 12 in September 2025 this number is expected to be 25. External candidates wishing to apply for a place in the Sixth Form should contact the school. It is not necessary for parents of existing pupils to apply formally for places in Year 12. Places will be provided to internal students who meet the entry requirements.

To achieve entry into the Sixth Form in September 2025, prospective entrants (both internal and external candidates) must achieve our standard entry requirement of five GCSE or Level 2 passes at Grades 9-4 including GCSE English Language/Literature and GCSE Mathematics, plus the minimum requirement for each subject as given in our Minimum Entry Requirements:

A Level Subject Minimum Entry Requirements

Vocational Minimum Entry Requirements:

It is important to note that due to government funding being removed for BTECs that overlap with the new T Levels, it may not be possible to re-sit the BTEC you have chosen. For further information about T Levels, please visit Technical education in England: T Levels – House of Commons Library (parliament.uk). You can also get further information about BTECs phasing out here: Level 3 qualifications reform: What’s happening to BTECs? (parliament.uk)

For more information on the courses we offer, please visit our Curriculum Page.

Offers of places in the Sixth Form will be conditional on achievement of these results in the subjects for which the candidate applied. Where the candidate has not met those requirements, the school is not obliged to offer a place on an alternative course, even where the candidate may have achieved the entry requirements in that alternative subject. Offers of places are conditional on the capacity of the chosen courses.

Satisfaction of the grade entry criteria will not guarantee an offer if the subject is over-subscribed. In order for an offer to be made, the applicant must be applying for courses in which there is capacity in each subject the applicant has applied for.

In the event of oversubscription for external places, priority will be given to:

• “Looked after” or “previously looked after” children. Candidates in this category will be ranked by straight line distance of their home address to the school, with places offered to those living nearest to school;

• Applicants with the best grades at GCSE, ranked by average point score across an applicant’s best six GCSE subjects, and then by distance if two candidates have the same score.

In a very small number of cases it may not be possible to decide between the applications of those pupils who are the final qualifiers for a place, when applying the published admission criteria. For example, this may occur when children in the same year group live at the same address, or where there are twins, or if the distance between the home and school is exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If there is no other way of separating the application according to the admissions criteria and to admit both or all of the children would cause the legal limit to be exceeded, random selection will be used to determine the child to be offered the final place.

Any applicant who meets the general admissions requirement but who cannot be offered a place based on the criteria detailed above will be added to the school’s waiting list. The waiting list will be maintained by the school until 31 December 2025.

Conditional offers will become ‘firm’ offers when a copy of GCSE results is provided by 3 pm on GCSE results day. If a student is away on this day, it is strongly advised they make arrangements for GCSE results to be delivered, uploaded, or sent by e-mail. This is the responsibility of the applicant and results not received by the deadline may result in withdrawal of the conditional offer.

If a student is refused a place, they have the right to an appeal to an independent appeal panel. Any appeal application should be sent to the Clerk to the Governors. The Clerk will arrange an appeal within 30 working days of receiving the appeal request. Please note that parents/carers of the student have a separate right of appeal to an independent appeal panel. Again, please send any application to the Clerk to the Governors.

We are consulting on our admission arrangements for the 2026/27 academic year. The proposed arrangements can be viewed here (King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy Proposed Admissions Arrangements 2026-2027). Should you wish to comment on the proposals please visit OAA- Proposed Admission Arrangements for September 2026/2027 – Birmingham City Council – Citizen Space