Entrance Requirements from September 2019

A minimum of 8 GCSEs at grade 6 or higher including English and Maths

For legacy GCSE subjects such as Business Studies, ICT and DT courses a minimum of a grade B will be accepted in place of a grade 6.

Conditional offers are based only on GCSE grades and do not include alternative Level 2 qualifications (vocational courses such as BTEC’s, Nationals etc.).

Specific Subject Minimum Requirements are:

* If a student has studied GCSE Combined Science rather than separate sciences they will require a minimum of two grade 7’s and will only be permitted to choose a maximum of 2 sciences for A-level.

• Conditional offers do not always guarantee the subjects that have been selected by a candidate will be the subjects undertaken at A-level. Subjects to be studied are determined by exam results and availability of spaces.
• If a subject has not been studied at GCSE level then it may still be possible for that subject to be taken at A-level. Such circumstances will be considered on an individual basis.
• The school and its governors reserve the right to reduce curriculum time allocated to a specific course due to low uptake of students and also to withdraw a course due to an extremely low uptake of students.
• In the event of over-subscription preference will be given to looked-after children or previously looked-after children; and then those who live nearest to the school (according to the straight-line distance between home and school).
• Many subjects are delivered in collaboration with KEVI Aston, KEVI Handsworth Girls and KEVI Handsworth Wood Girls Schools, so lessons may be at those venues and/or have students from those schools.