National Offer Day Year 7 Sept 2026
NHSB National Offer day Information for Year 7 cohort Sept 26
Please see below information from the Birmingham City Council or contact your home local authority for more information.
If you applied online and provided an email address, the local authority will email you on Monday, 2nd March 2026 to tell you which secondary school your child has been offered.
The local authority cannot guarantee the exact time you will receive your email as this depends on your service provider. However, they expect you to receive your offer email by 4pm on Monday, 2nd March 2026.
Please ensure you check your junk/spam folder for the email address you provided.
Birmingham City Council will also send you a formal offer letter that will be posted by 1st class post on Monday, 2nd March 2026. Please allow at least three working days for your letter to arrive.
Please do not contact Birmingham City Council before you have received the offer of a school place.
You must have received your email or letter before contacting the school admissions team. The school admissions team cannot tell you which secondary school place has been offered to your child by phone or email.
You may contact School Admissions if you have not received your email or letter by Tuesday, 3rd March 2026.
Accepting or Refusing the place offered
The formal offer letter will explain how to accept or refuse the offer that has been made:
For Birmingham residences you will not need to accept the offer but only contact the council if you are refusing the offer by 16th March 2026.
For information about acceptances and refusals please visit: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20119/school_admissions/1778/apply_for_a_secondary_school_year_7_place/6
Waiting List
The waiting list will move up and down as offers are accepted or declined. If your first preference was Nishkam High School Birmingham and you were not offered a place you will automatically be on the waiting list until the 31st December 2026. Please note we do not give out waiting list position information as it can change on a daily basis. The waiting list will be ranked only when a place becomes available using the over-subscription criteria.
If you would like to join the waiting list please contact your home local authority and complete the Supplementary Information Form (SIF) if applying for a faith place.
The waiting list is held in accordance with the admission criteria of the school, not in order of applications received. All waiting lists are cleared at the end of each academic year, and no names are carried forward into the next academic year.
Any questions please email admissions.nhsb@nishkamschools.org