For parents and guardians: Please verify all school data — cut-off scores, applicant numbers and competition ratios — against official sources (school websites, local authority admissions data) before making any decisions. The figures on this page are researched but not guaranteed and change each admissions cycle.
Complete 2025/26 11+ Guide to Grammar Schools in Wolverhampton & Wrekin
Wolverhampton & Wrekin is home to 3 fully selective grammar schools and 0 partially selective schools, served by the Shropshire, Walsall & Wolverhampton Grammar Schools Consortium (part of West Midlands Grammar Schools partnership). This guide covers every school — admissions criteria, competition data, cut-off scores, GCSE results, and specific prep advice — so you can make an informed decision.
How the Wolverhampton & Wrekin 11+ works
Two multiple-choice papers, each approx. 60 minutes, provided by GL Assessment. Papers are subdivided into separately timed sections covering: English Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Mathematics, and Non-Verbal/Spatial Reasoning. Scores are age-standardised. All schools in this guide use the same shared test — candidates register once for all consortium schools.
Wolverhampton Girls' High School, Haberdashers' Adams, and Newport Girls' High School are all members of the Consortium of Grammar Schools in Shropshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton (SWW Consortium), which in turn forms part of the broader West Midlands Grammar Schools partnership of 19 schools. One registration covers all consortium schools. Results are sent to families before the 31 October LA application deadline.
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Children who will be aged 11 by 31 August in the year of entry are eligible to sit the entrance test.
There is no residency restriction — families from any local authority may apply to these schools.
Children may only sit the test once per year group entry cycle. Re-sitting is not permitted until Year 8 entry.
Looked-after children and previously looked-after children who achieve the qualifying score are automatically offered a place (all schools).
Pupil Premium pupils are given priority at all three schools up to defined limits (see individual school entries).
Haberdashers' Adams also offers state boarding places (boys only); boarding applicants are interviewed separately.
Which LA should I apply through?
Your secondary school application must be submitted to your home local authority — the council where you pay council tax — regardless of where the school is located. Use the postcodes below to identify the correct LA.
Admissions process
Complete the online registration form via the West Midlands Grammar Schools portal (link available on each school's website). Registration opens in May and closes in late June. One registration covers all 19 consortium schools. Families should indicate which schools they are interested in.
Children are allocated a test venue and morning or afternoon session. The test consists of two GL Assessment multiple-choice papers lasting approximately 60 minutes each, covering English Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Mathematics, and Non-Verbal/Spatial Reasoning. Scores are age-standardised.
Results are sent to families by mid-October, before the LA application deadline. Each school sets its own qualifying score (which may not be fixed in advance). Families should wait for results before listing grammar schools on the CAF.
Apply to your home local authority (even if the preferred school is in another LA area) listing preferred schools in order of preference. Wolverhampton residents apply to City of Wolverhampton Council; Telford & Wrekin residents apply to Telford & Wrekin Council. Out-of-area applicants apply to their own home LA.
LAs allocate places on National Offer Day. Each school applies its oversubscription criteria to ranked qualifying applicants. Children are offered the highest-preference school for which they qualify and for which there is a place. Waiting lists are maintained in test-score order.
School Directory
Disclaimer: Data from official school websites (wghs.org.uk, adamsgs.uk, nghs.org.uk), Telford & Wrekin Council secondary admissions, City of Wolverhampton Council admissions, Ofsted (reports.ofsted.gov.uk), DfE Compare School Performance (compare.education.gov.uk), and press releases from each school — verified March/April 2026. Progress 8 and Attainment 8 sourced from DfE 2023/24 tables (most recent published P8). Note: Progress 8 is not calculable for 2024/25 or 2025/26 cohorts due to COVID-era KS2 data gap (DfE, 2024). Verify all admissions data at each school's website before acting. Always verify figures on the school or local authority website before making decisions — data changes each admissions cycle. Last updated: 2026-06-02. We aim to refresh this guide every year after new DfE data is published (typically June/July).
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