Our Admissions application process is currently undertaken by Birmingham City Council’s Admissions Department. The school has adopted the Local Authority Admission criteria. For details, see our procedures

How to apply for Reception Class in September 2025
An application must be made online at: www.birmingham.gov.uk/schooladmissions

How to make an In-Year application

In-Year Admissions Cut off distance:

2024    All applicants offered

2023     All applicants offered

2022    All applicants offered

There is no guarantee that the same admission pattern and ‘cut off’ distances will apply for 2025.

Children with an Education Health and Care Plan
Any child with an Education Health and Care Plan is required to be admitted to the school that is named in their plan. This gives such children overall priority for admission to the named school. This is not an oversubscription criterion.

Oversubscription Criteria
1. Looked after or previously looked after children (including previously looked after children from outside of England)

2. Children with a brother or a sister already at the academy during the year of application, September 2025. (Prospective pupils, who have a sibling at the academy during the year of application will be allocated a place in preference to prospective pupils, who do not have a sibling at the academy).

3. Children who live nearest the academy.

Applications made outside the normal round (in-year admission) must be made directly to the school. The school will provide an in year application form for parent to complete.

If the total number of preferences for admission to Fairway Primary Academy exceeds the Academy’s Published Admission Number (PAN), an order of priority is used by the local authority to allocate the available places based on the below criteria:

1) Children in care and children who ceased to be in care because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order), including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

2) Children who have an elder brother or sister in attendance at the preferred Academy and who will still be attending the Academy at the time of the proposed admission date. (For admission purposes, a brother or sister is a child who lives at the same address and either: have one or both natural parents in common; are related by a parent’s marriage; are adopted or fostered by a common parent or are unrelated children who live at the same address, whose parents live as partners.)

3) All other children arranged in order of priority according to how near their home addresses are to the main gate of the Academy, determined by a straight-line measurement as calculated by the local authority’s geographical information system.

During a normal working day all visitors, including parents, should report to Reception, where visitors will be requested to sign in upon arrival, and sign out when leaving. Visitors must wear a visitor badge. Visitors will be directed to the appropriate offices, or asked to wait in the reception area until the member of staff has been notified of their arrival. Visitors wishing to meet individual members of staff are requested to make appointments beforehand.