Type a postcode. This page puts nineteen West Midlands grammar schools in order of straight-line distance from it, and says what that distance means in each school’s own rules. The score comes first everywhere. Distance is a tie-break or a category boundary, never a qualification.
They are the schools in three admissions groups: Birmingham, Warwickshire, and Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall. Between them, admission is coordinated by Birmingham City Council, Warwickshire County Council, Walsall Council, the City of Wolverhampton Council and Telford and Wrekin Council, and a child living in Sandwell or Solihull can be in catchment for some of the Birmingham schools. Grammar schools elsewhere set their own arrangements and are not on this page, so if the school you want is not here, ask your own council’s admissions team for its rules.
Check this first: every rule on this page was read on the school’s or the council’s own document on 8 September 2026, and that document is linked beside the rule. Arrangements are re-determined every year. Read the school’s own admissions page before you act on any of it.
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The nineteen schools, school by school
Each card carries the school’s catchment or priority area in the words of its own determined arrangements, the part distance plays in its admissions, the order it ranks applicants in, and every cut-off it has published, printed as the admission authority printed it. Once a postcode has been checked, each card also carries the distance to that school and where the postcode sits against the school’s own zones, and the cards move into distance order.
Haberdashers' Adams #
Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027-2028 entry (determined 8 December 2025; published by Telford & Wrekin Council) (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Day priority is attached to being on roll at one of 36 named primary schools in Telford & Wrekin at the registration deadline, not to where the child lives. Boarding places (up to 15 boys) are a separate list with their own criteria and no geographic element; 'boarding need' expressly includes living too far away to attend as a day pupil. (the school policy) 36 named primary schools. (the list itself)
The 36 named primary schools the policy names+
Apley Wood Primary, Aqueduct Primary, Captain Webb Primary, Castle House School, Dawley CE Primary, Donnington Wood CE Juniors, Dothill Primary, Hollinswood Primary, Holmer Lake Primary, Ladygrove Primary, Lantern Academy (formerly Queenswood Primary), Lawley Primary, Lawley Village Academy, Lightmoor Village Primary, Lilleshall Primary, Meadows Primary, Millbrook Primary, Moorfield Primary, Muxton Primary, Newdale Primary, Newport CE Juniors School, Old Park Primary, Randlay Primary, St. George’s Church of England Primary, St. Luke’s Catholic Primary, St. Patrick’s Catholic Primary, St. Peters, Bratton, St. Peter’s CofE Primary School, St. Peter & St. Paul Catholic Primary, Short Wood Primary, Teagues Bridge Primary, Tibberton CE Primary, Windmill Primary, Wombridge Primary, Wrekin View Primary, Wrockwardine Wood CE Junior.
What distance does here. Tie-break only. In both the day list (criterion 4) and the boarding list (criterion 4). Distance never creates a category boundary at Adams; the day category boundary is the designated primary school list. (the school policy)
The school measures from: Not defined. The policy names no measuring point at the school and no measuring point at the home address; distance appears only as an undefined 'distance from the school'. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, TF10 7BD, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Looked after and previously looked after children (the school policy)
- Pupil premium or service premium children recorded in the October 2025 school census; qualifying score may be up to 5% below the general qualifying score (the school policy)
- Children on roll at one of the 36 designated primary schools at the registration deadline; ranked among themselves by test score if oversubscribed (the school policy)
- Rank order of entrance test result, having reached the required academic standard; distance tie-break (the school policy)
- Looked after and previously looked after children (the school policy)
- Children of UK Armed Forces members qualifying for MoD boarding-fee assistance (the school policy)
- Children with a boarding need (four defined limbs, the first being living too far away to attend as a day pupil) (the school policy)
- Rank order in the entrance test, distance tie-break (the school policy)
- All boarding applicants and their parents are interviewed before a place is considered (the school policy)
Haberdashers' Adams publishes no cut-off score or cut-off distance in the documents read for this page.
Before you act on this
- Adams does not publish qualifying scores or cut-off scores at all, by stated policy. There is no number here because the school does not release one. (the document this comes from)
- A postcode cannot answer the Adams day-priority question. Priority is on roll at one of 36 named primary schools, so a family living next to the school whose child attends a school not on the list has no criterion-3 priority, and a family far away whose child attends a listed school does. (the document this comes from)
- Boarding is boys only, up to 15 Year 7 places, and is a separate application route with an interview, its own criteria and its own waiting list. (the document this comes from)
- Living far away is a boarding qualification, not a disqualification, so 'too far to apply' is wrong advice for Adams. (the document this comes from)
- Distance at Adams is only a tie-break between equally scoring children, and the policy defines no measuring point at either end, so any mileage the tool computes is an estimate and cannot be reconciled with the school's own calculation. (the document this comes from)
- A change of primary school after the registration deadline is assessed from the new address with immediate effect, and an unreported change of address can cost an offer. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The research file lists 36 designated primary schools; the cross-check note taken from the school's own copy of the policy counts 37, each with a Department for Education number. The list here is the research file's, and the school's own document is the one to read before relying on it. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.adamsgs.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
Newport Girls' High School #
Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027-2028 entry (Admissions Policy Entry 2027, reviewed February 2026) (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. A drawn boundary on an Ordnance Survey base map at 1:75,000, licensed to the Borough of Telford & Wrekin, dated 2009. The policy directs parents to the map and to the School Office rather than defining the area in words. (the school policy)
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Living inside the mapped Newport boundary area is Stage Three and beats every out-of-area applicant regardless of score; residual distance ('resides closest') is used only to break a tied score for the 120th place at Stage Four. (the school policy)
The school measures from: Not defined. No measuring point is named at either end. The only distance test is the final tie-break for the 120th place, expressed simply as who 'resides closest to the school'. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, TF10 7HL, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Stage One – looked after and previously looked after girls, including internationally adopted previously looked after children, scoring at least 95% of the qualifying score (the school policy)
- Stage Two – up to 15 pupil premium girls at a Telford & Wrekin primary school listed in Appendix 1, scoring at least 95% of the qualifying score, ranked by score (the school policy)
- Stage Three – girls resident within the publicised Newport boundary area who achieved the qualifying score, ranked by score (the school policy)
- Stage Four – all other areas, anywhere in the UK or abroad, solely on decreasing rank order of standardised score; ties for the 120th place broken by who lives closest (the school policy)
- No sibling priority whatsoever; twins/triplets tied on score are admitted above PAN (the school policy)
- Qualifying score is set each year by a selection panel after results are standardised; PAN is 120 (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | Minimum Qualifying Score | 192 (published figure) |
| September 2026 | LAC/PLAC/PP Qualifying Score | 183 (published figure) |
| September 2026 | Lowest out-of-area score offered a place on National Offers Day | 215 (published figure) |
| September 2026 | Lowest out-of-area score offered a place as of 1 September in the admission year | Not known until September 2026 (published figure) |
| September 2025 | Minimum Qualifying Score | 190 (published figure) |
| September 2025 | LAC/PLAC/PP Qualifying Score | 181 (published figure) |
| September 2025 | Lowest out-of-area score offered a place on National Offers Day | 211 (published figure) |
| September 2025 | Lowest out-of-area score offered a place as of 1 September in the admission year | 209 (published figure) |
| September 2024 | Minimum Qualifying Score | 189 (published figure) |
| September 2024 | LAC/PLAC/PP Qualifying Score | 180 (published figure) |
| September 2024 | Lowest out-of-area score offered a place on National Offers Day | 213 (published figure) |
| September 2024 | Lowest out-of-area score offered a place as of 1 September in the admission year | 211 (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- The Newport boundary area exists only as a map. The boundary exists only as that map. There is no radius, parish list or postcode list to test an address against, so this page links the map and leaves the judgement to the school. (the document this comes from)
- The published boundary map is drawn on an Ordnance Survey base dated 2009; a postcode created or changed since then may not resolve against it. Only the school can confirm whether an address is in area. (the document this comes from)
- Being out of area is not a bar. Stage Four is expressly open to candidates anywhere in the UK or abroad, ranked purely on score. (the document this comes from)
- The published cut-offs are out-of-area cut-offs only. NGHS publishes no in-area cut-off, so an in-area family cannot read their chance off these numbers. (the document this comes from)
- There is no pass mark. The qualifying score is set fresh each year by a selection panel after the test, so a past number is history, not a target. (the document this comes from)
- There is no sibling priority at NGHS. An older sister already at the school confers nothing. (the document this comes from)
- Parents pay for transport themselves; the school runs coaches but arranging and funding travel is the parent's responsibility. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The Newport boundary area is published only as a map image on an Ordnance Survey base dated 2009. The determined policy defines it in no words, no radius, no parish list and no postcode list, so this tool cannot test a postcode against it and does not try. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.nghs.org.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
Queen Mary's Grammar School #
Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027-2028 entry (determined arrangements published by the school) (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. No geographic area is defined. The only place-linked rule is a sub-priority inside the pupil premium category for children attending a state-funded primary school in Walsall, which is about the school attended, not where the family lives. (the school policy)
What distance does here. No part at all. Distance is neither a category boundary nor a tie-break at Queen Mary's Grammar School for Year 7 entry. Home address is used only to allocate a test centre. (the school policy)
The school measures from: None. No measuring point is defined because no distance is measured anywhere in the Year 7 arrangements. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, WS1 2PG, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Gateway: a minimum standardised score (the minimum qualifying score), decided by Governors in early to mid-November after the order of merit is received; PAN 180 boys (the school policy)
- Looked after and previously looked after children who achieve the minimum qualifying score, by rank order of standardised score (the school policy)
- Pupil premium children at the time of the test, by rank order, capped at 30% of the intake (currently 54 places); within that cap, Walsall state-funded primary pupils (B1) come before all others (B2) (the school policy)
- All other children achieving the minimum qualifying score, by rank order of standardised score, until the PAN is reached (the school policy)
- Tie-break 1: sum of the candidate's positions in the three test skill areas, highest wins (the school policy)
- Tie-break 2: independently verified random allocation (the school policy)
- No sibling priority anywhere in the arrangements (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 entry | Minimum Qualifying Score | 200* (published figure) |
| 2026 entry | Lowest score offered a place (non-PP, National Offer Day) | 225 (published figure) |
| 2025 entry | Minimum Qualifying Score | 200 (published figure) |
| 2025 entry | Lowest score offered a place (non-PP, National Offer Day); in brackets, last offered from the waiting list | 224 (221) (published figure) |
| 2024 entry | Minimum Qualifying Score | 200 (published figure) |
| 2024 entry | Lowest score offered a place (non-PP, National Offer Day); in brackets, last offered from the waiting list | 223 (218) (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Queen Mary's Grammar School has no catchment area and no distance rule. Where a family lives does not affect the Year 7 outcome at all; only the test score, looked-after status and pupil premium status do. (the document this comes from)
- The published score table on the school's own page is internally inconsistent: its header row carries four cells of which the first is blank, leaving the '180' column unlabelled, and the asterisked footnote about Governors' confirmation in November 2026 is attached to a row labelled '2026 entry'. The figures here are printed with the school's own labels and linked to its own page, because those labels are the only key to what the columns mean. (the document this comes from)
- No 2027-entry cut-off exists yet; Governors set the minimum qualifying score in early to mid-November 2026. (the document this comes from)
- The published cut-offs are for non-pupil-premium children only. A pupil premium family cannot read their threshold from these figures. (the document this comes from)
- The Walsall primary school sub-priority (B1) applies only inside the pupil premium category, and it turns on the primary school attended, not the family's address. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not applying. The school must also be named on the home local authority preference form or no place will be offered however high the score. (the document this comes from)
- Data sharing across the partnership must be ticked at registration. Birmingham and Warwickshire cannot consider an application unless selected at that point. (the document this comes from)
School website: qmgs.walsall.sch.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
Queen Mary's High School #
Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027-2028 entry. The document published under 'Admissions Arrangements' on the school site is headed 'Draft Admission arrangements for the School Year 2027-2028'; the 2026-2027 file on the same page is also labelled draft. (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. No geographic area is defined. The only place-linked rule is a sub-priority inside the pupil premium category for girls attending a state-funded primary school in Walsall, which turns on the school attended rather than the home address. (the school policy)
What distance does here. No part at all. For Year 7 entry: not a category boundary and not a tie-break. Distance appears only as the last tie-break for external Year 12 sixth form applicants. (the school policy)
The school measures from: For Year 7 there is no measuring point, because distance is not used. The only measuring point named anywhere in the document is for the Year 12 sixth form tie-break: the main entrance to the School. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, WS4 2AE, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Gateway: a minimum standardised 'qualifying score' set annually by Governors and published on the school website, usually early to mid-November; PAN 150 girls (the school policy)
- Looked after and previously looked after children achieving the minimum qualifying score, by rank order of standardised score (the school policy)
- Pupil premium girls at the time of the test, by rank order, capped at 30% of the intake (currently 45 places); within that cap, Walsall state-funded primary pupils (B1) come before all others (B2) (the school policy)
- All other children achieving the minimum qualifying score, by rank order of standardised score, until the PAN is reached (the school policy)
- Tie-break 1: sum of the candidate's positions in the three test skill areas, highest wins (the school policy)
- Tie-break 2: independently verified random allocation (the school policy)
- Year 12 only: final tie-break is closest proximity by straight line to the main school entrance (the school policy)
- No sibling priority anywhere in the Year 7 arrangements (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | Minimum Qualifying Score | 200 (published figure) |
| September 2026 | Lowest score allocated a place (PP) | 200 (published figure) |
| September 2026 | Lowest score allocated a place (non-PP) | 212 (published figure) |
| September 2026 | Lowest and highest scores in the test (QMHS only) | 120 (QMHS only) / 269 (QMHS only) (published figure) |
| September 2025 | Minimum Qualifying Score | 198 (published figure) |
| September 2025 | Lowest score allocated a place (PP) | 198 (published figure) |
| September 2025 | Lowest score allocated a place (non-PP) | 211 (published figure) |
| September 2024 | Minimum Qualifying Score | 195 (published figure) |
| September 2024 | Lowest score allocated a place (PP) | 195 (published figure) |
| September 2024 | Lowest score allocated a place (non-PP) | 214 (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Queen Mary's High School has no catchment area and no distance rule for Year 7. Where a family lives does not affect the outcome; score, looked-after status and pupil premium status do. (the document this comes from)
- The 2027-2028 arrangements are published under the heading 'Draft'. Treat everything here as provisional and check the school's own page before you rely on it. (the document this comes from)
- No 2027-entry qualifying score exists yet; it is confirmed by Governors in November 2026. (the document this comes from)
- The scores QMHS publishes are its own only, and the qualifying score moves year to year. They are not a threshold for any other partnership school. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not applying. The school must be named on the home local authority preference form or no place will be offered however high the score. (the document this comes from)
- Pupil premium evidence must arrive before the test day; nothing is accepted on the day or after. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The document the school publishes for 2027 to 2028 entry is headed "Draft Admission arrangements", and so is the file for the year before it. No determined version was found on the school site or in the council's composite arrangements on the check date. (the page that was checked)
- The school's Admissions Arrangements page serves its content only after a session cookie is set; the file it links for 2027-2028 is headed 'Draft Admission arrangements'. No determined version was found on the school site on the fetch date. (the page that was checked)
School website: qmhs.org.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
Wolverhampton Girls' High School #
Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027-2028 entry (Admissions Arrangements 2027-2028, published on the school site) (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. No area of any kind. Parents living inside and outside the City of Wolverhampton apply on the same footing. (the school policy)
What distance does here. Tie-break only. At two points: to separate candidates tied on the last of the twenty-five Stage 1 pupil premium places, and as the fourth item in the Stage 2 tie-break order. Distance is never a category boundary and never a threshold. (the school policy)
The school measures from: 'The school' and 'the designated home address', neither further defined. The arrangements define the home address (normal place of residence on weekdays and nights, the permanent residence when the place is offered) but name no point on the school site. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, WV6 0BY, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Gateway: only girls attaining the required standard are eligible; the required standard is scoring within 2% of the last automatic place, and for pupil premium girls at least the qualifying score. Admission number 180. (the school policy)
- Stage 1: the school sets a qualifying score in October 2026, communicated in the notification letter; those meeting Stage 1 criteria receive an automatic offer (the school policy)
- Stage 1: looked after and previously looked after children scoring at or above the qualifying score are offered a place (the school policy)
- Stage 1: the first twenty-five pupil premium students, ranked highest in merit order, scoring at or above the qualifying score (the school policy)
- Stage 1: remaining pupil premium students return to the full order of merit for Stage 2 (the school policy)
- Stage 2: remaining places allocated in strict order of merit on test score (the school policy)
- Stage 1 tie-break for the last of the 25 pupil premium places: those living nearest the school, by straight line using computerised software; identical flat points decided by lot (the school policy)
- Stage 2 tie-break, in order: (1) looked after / previously looked after child, (2) pupil premium student scoring above the qualifying score not already placed, (3) pupil premium student scoring below it, (4) those living nearest the school by straight line, (5) twins/triplets tied at the same address, first born then lot (the school policy)
- No sibling priority; the only sibling provision is a tie-break between twins or triplets at the same address (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | Lowest test score to gain an automatic place | 208 (published figure) |
| September 2026 | Lowest Pupil Premium test score to gain an automatic place | 203 (published figure) |
| September 2026 | Waiting list range | 204 to 208 (published figure) |
| September 2026 | Waiting list floor | below 204 = not eligible for the waiting list (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Wolverhampton Girls' High School has no catchment area. A postcode anywhere is eligible; living nearby confers no advantage. (the document this comes from)
- Distance is only a tie-break at WGHS, measured by the school in a straight line with its own computerised software. Any mileage the tool shows is an estimate and will not match the school's figure. (the document this comes from)
- The 'required standard' is defined relative to the last automatic place, so it can only be known after the cohort has sat the test. No score can be promised in advance. (the document this comes from)
- Only twenty-five pupil premium places are ring-fenced; girls beyond that number go back into the general order of merit. (the document this comes from)
- Consent to share test results with WGHS must be given at registration; a high score with the box unticked produces no offer. (the document this comes from)
- Naming WGHS on the home local authority preference form is compulsory, or no offer is made whatever the score. (the document this comes from)
- The school describes its own status differently in different places on its site, saying 'maintained ... with foundation status' on the Admissions landing page and 'Academy Status' in the determined 2027-2028 arrangements. Where the two disagree, the determined arrangements document is the one that governs. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The school publishes cut-off scores only on the current entry-year page (September 2026 entry). The Year 7 2027 page carries no scores, and no archive of prior years was found on the school site. (the page that was checked)
- SharePoint returned 'Sorry, you cannot access this document.' The direct paths .../Shared Documents/School Policies/Admission Arrangements/Admission Arrangements 2026.pdf and .../2027.pdf both returned a Microsoft sign-in page. The 2027-2028 arrangements were obtained instead from the school's own site at https://www.wghs.org.uk/_files/ugd/0411cc_2443b2de35154dc3800d80a599a738df.pdf (the page that was checked)
- The council's 2027-2028 arrangements cover community and voluntary controlled schools only and do not mention Wolverhampton Girls' High School. The council states that foundation, voluntary aided, free school and academy arrangements are on the school's own website. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.wghs.org.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School #
Birmingham admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Three concentric zones measured from the school: Zone 1 = within a 12-mile radius; Zone 2 = between a 12-mile and 20-mile radius; Zone 3 = anywhere beyond a 20-mile radius. (the school policy)
- Zone 1. Measured within 12 miles from The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School.
- Zone 2. Measured between 12 and 20 miles from The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School.
- Zone 3. Measured between 20 and any distance from The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School.
The school's policy centres its zones on the foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance. This tool uses the centroid of the school's own postcode, B74 2NH, which is not that point. Coordinates read from postcodes.io on 8 September 2026. (the coordinate we used)
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Zone membership is a category boundary (criteria 3, 4 and 5 are Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3), and within a category distance is the tie-break: “Where children are equal on standardised score, places will be offered to those who live nearest the school.” (the school policy)
The school measures from: The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance (Lichfield Road). (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, B74 2NH, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Looked After / Previously Looked After / Internationally Adopted Previously Looked After children with the qualifying score, in Zone 1, by rank order of score. (the school policy)
- Pupil Premium children in Zone 1 with the qualifying score, by rank order of score, capped at 38 pupils. (the school policy)
- Other children with the qualifying score in Zone 1, by rank order of score. (the school policy)
- Other children with the qualifying score in Zone 2, by rank order of score. (the school policy)
- If places remain, children in Zone 3 (beyond 20 miles). (the school policy)
- No sibling priority in the Year 7 oversubscription criteria; a qualifying score is required before any category applies. (the school policy)
- A child with an EHCP naming the school who lives in Zone 1 and reaches the qualifying score is allocated a place. That sits outside the oversubscription criteria. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score for 2027 entry is 205 (Foundation-published, all Birmingham grammar schools). (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above | 210 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above | 206 (All offered) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above | 206 (206) (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 229 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 3 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 234 (229) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 230 (225) (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Cut-off figures in brackets are the September position after waiting-list movement, not the March offer. (the document this comes from)
- The Foundation does not release raw scores or mark totals, and does not re-mark answer sheets. (the document this comes from)
- Achieving the qualifying score is not an offer; offers come from the home local authority on 1 March 2027. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not the same as applying; a local-authority preference form is also required. (the document this comes from)
- Distance is computed by Birmingham City Council's Cartology system from Ordnance Survey coordinates, in metres. Any figure shown here is an estimate. (the document this comes from)
- Zone 1 residence must be evidenced by 31 October 2026 and the council may make a home visit; an offer can be withdrawn. (the document this comes from)
- Tied final qualifiers are separated by a computerised random draw. (the document this comes from)
- Bishop Vesey's is a boys' school to 16 with a co-educational sixth form; Year 7 eligibility is based on biological sex being male. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- Two 2027 admissions policies are live on the school's own site and they do not agree. The version linked from the admissions page restricts the looked-after and pupil premium categories to Zone 1; the other version does not. Neither states a determination date. The zones and criteria here follow the version the admissions page links, and both documents are linked on the card. (the page that was checked)
School website: bvgs.co.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
King Edward VI Aston School #
Birmingham admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Named electoral wards; a home address is in catchment if its ward is on the list. No radius is used. (the school policy) 30 named electoral wards across Birmingham and Solihull. (the list itself)
The 30 electoral wards the policy names+
Alum Rock (Birmingham), Aston (Birmingham), Bromford & Hodge Hill (Birmingham), Castle Vale (Birmingham), Erdington (Birmingham), Garretts Green (Birmingham), Glebe Farm & Tile Cross (Birmingham), Gravelly Hill (Birmingham), Heartlands (Birmingham), Nechells (Birmingham), Perry Common (Birmingham), Pype Hayes (Birmingham), Shard End (Birmingham), Sheldon (Birmingham), Stockland Green (Birmingham), Sutton Four Oaks (Birmingham), Sutton Mere Green (Birmingham), Sutton Reddicap (Birmingham), Sutton Roughley (Birmingham), Sutton Trinity (Birmingham), Sutton Vesey (Birmingham), Sutton Walmley & Minworth (Birmingham), Sutton Wylde Green (Birmingham), Ward End (Birmingham), Yardley East (Birmingham), Yardley West & Stechford (Birmingham), Castle Bromwich (Solihull), Chelmsley Wood (Solihull), Kingshurst & Fordbridge (Solihull), Smith's Wood (Solihull).
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Catchment membership is a category boundary (categories 2, 3 and 4 turn on living inside or outside the catchment area) and distance from the school is the ranking or tie-break rule inside categories 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. (the school policy)
The school measures from: A point decided by the school, the front gates. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, B6 6DJ, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Looked After Children / Previously Looked After Children who achieve the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score and then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- If fewer than 25% of places offered (rounded to the nearest whole number) are offered to applicants in category 2, offers will be made to children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live outside the catchment area, until a total of 25% of places have been offered. If 25% or more of places available have been offered to applicants in category 2, there will be no offers made from this category. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants who achieve the priority score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be given priority if they have an older sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants achieving the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 205 and priority score 224 for 2027 entry, published by the Foundation before the test. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 2027 entry = 205 (the school policy)
- Priority score 2027 entry = 224 (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | 239 with sibling, 4977 metres (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 4,977 metres |
| 2025 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | 214 (214) (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 217, 9442 metres (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 9,442 metres |
| 2025 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 219 (215) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 218 (214) (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Cut-off figures in brackets are the September position after waiting-list movement, not the March offer. (the document this comes from)
- The Foundation does not release raw scores or mark totals, and does not re-mark answer sheets. (the document this comes from)
- Achieving the qualifying score is not an offer; offers come from the home local authority on 1 March 2027. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not the same as applying; a local-authority preference form is also required. (the document this comes from)
- Distance is measured by the local authority's computerised system from Ordnance Survey coordinates, not by any tool of ours. (the document this comes from)
- Ward membership, not a radius, decides catchment; check the ward of the exact home address. (the document this comes from)
- Where the final qualifiers cannot be separated, the place is decided by a computerised random draw. (the document this comes from)
School website: www.keaston.bham.sch.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys #
Birmingham admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Named electoral wards; a home address is in catchment if its ward is on the list. No radius is used. (the school policy) 18 named electoral wards across Birmingham. (the list itself)
The 18 electoral wards the policy names+
Acocks Green (Birmingham), Balsall Heath West (Birmingham), Billesley (Birmingham), Bordesley & Highgate (Birmingham), Bordesley Green (Birmingham), Bournbrook & Selly Park (Birmingham), Brandwood & Kings Heath (Birmingham), Druids Heath & Monyhull (Birmingham), Hall Green North (Birmingham), Hall Green South (Birmingham), Highters Heath (Birmingham), Moseley (Birmingham), Small Heath (Birmingham), South Yardley (Birmingham), Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East (Birmingham), Sparkhill (Birmingham), Stirchley (Birmingham), Tyseley & Hay Mills (Birmingham).
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Catchment membership is a category boundary (categories 2, 3 and 4 turn on living inside or outside the catchment area) and distance from the school is the ranking or tie-break rule inside categories 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. (the school policy)
The school measures from: A point decided by the school, the front gates. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, B14 7QJ, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Looked After Children / Previously Looked After Children who achieve the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score and then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- If fewer than 25% of places offered (rounded to the nearest whole number) are offered to applicants in category 2, offers will be made to children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live outside the catchment area, until a total of 25% of places have been offered. If 25% or more of places available have been offered to applicants in category 2, there will be no offers made from this category. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants who achieve the priority score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be given priority if they have an older sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants achieving the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 205 and priority score 224 for 2027 entry, published by the Foundation before the test. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 2027 entry = 205 (the school policy)
- Priority score 2027 entry = 224 (the school policy)
- A sibling at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls counts as a valid sibling claim here. (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | No offers made from this category in March (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | No offers made from this category in March or by September (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | 239 (236) (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | 5698 metres (6186 metres)* (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 5,698 metres |
| 2024 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 254, 6831 metres (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 6,831 metres |
| 2025 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | No offers made from this category in March or by September* (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 260 (250) (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Cut-off figures in brackets are the September position after waiting-list movement, not the March offer. (the document this comes from)
- The Foundation does not release raw scores or mark totals, and does not re-mark answer sheets. (the document this comes from)
- Achieving the qualifying score is not an offer; offers come from the home local authority on 1 March 2027. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not the same as applying; a local-authority preference form is also required. (the document this comes from)
- Distance is measured by the local authority's computerised system from Ordnance Survey coordinates, not by any tool of ours. (the document this comes from)
- Ward membership, not a radius, decides catchment; check the ward of the exact home address. (the document this comes from)
- Where the final qualifiers cannot be separated, the place is decided by a computerised random draw. (the document this comes from)
- In 2025 entry the school filled on catchment category 4 and made no offers at all from category 5, an out-of-catchment applicant could not get a place at any score. (the document this comes from)
School website: www.camphillboys.bham.sch.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls #
Birmingham admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Named electoral wards; a home address is in catchment if its ward is on the list. No radius is used. (the school policy) 18 named electoral wards across Birmingham. (the list itself)
The 18 electoral wards the policy names+
Acocks Green (Birmingham), Balsall Heath West (Birmingham), Billesley (Birmingham), Bordesley & Highgate (Birmingham), Bordesley Green (Birmingham), Bournbrook & Selly Park (Birmingham), Brandwood & Kings Heath (Birmingham), Druids Heath & Monyhull (Birmingham), Hall Green North (Birmingham), Hall Green South (Birmingham), Highters Heath (Birmingham), Moseley (Birmingham), Small Heath (Birmingham), South Yardley (Birmingham), Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East (Birmingham), Sparkhill (Birmingham), Stirchley (Birmingham), Tyseley & Hay Mills (Birmingham).
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Catchment membership is a category boundary (categories 2, 3 and 4 turn on living inside or outside the catchment area) and distance from the school is the ranking or tie-break rule inside categories 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. (the school policy)
The school measures from: A point decided by the school, the front gates. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, B14 7QJ, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Looked After Children / Previously Looked After Children who achieve the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score and then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- If fewer than 25% of places offered (rounded to the nearest whole number) are offered to applicants in category 2, offers will be made to children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live outside the catchment area, until a total of 25% of places have been offered. If 25% or more of places available have been offered to applicants in category 2, there will be no offers made from this category. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants who achieve the priority score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be given priority if they have an older sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants achieving the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 205 and priority score 224 for 2027 entry, published by the Foundation before the test. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 2027 entry = 205 (the school policy)
- Priority score 2027 entry = 224 (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | No offers made from this category in March (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | 251 (232) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | No offers made from this category (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 255, 6343 metres (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 6,343 metres |
| 2025 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 243 (238) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 239 (224) (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Cut-off figures in brackets are the September position after waiting-list movement, not the March offer. (the document this comes from)
- The Foundation does not release raw scores or mark totals, and does not re-mark answer sheets. (the document this comes from)
- Achieving the qualifying score is not an offer; offers come from the home local authority on 1 March 2027. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not the same as applying; a local-authority preference form is also required. (the document this comes from)
- Distance is measured by the local authority's computerised system from Ordnance Survey coordinates, not by any tool of ours. (the document this comes from)
- Ward membership, not a radius, decides catchment; check the ward of the exact home address. (the document this comes from)
- Where the final qualifiers cannot be separated, the place is decided by a computerised random draw. (the document this comes from)
School website: www.kechg.org.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
King Edward VI Five Ways School #
Birmingham admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Named electoral wards; a home address is in catchment if its ward is on the list. No radius is used. (the school policy) 15 named electoral wards across Birmingham and Sandwell. (the list itself)
The 15 electoral wards the policy names+
Allens Cross (Birmingham), Bartley Green (Birmingham), Bournville & Cotteridge (Birmingham), Frankley Great Park (Birmingham), Harborne (Birmingham), King's Norton North (Birmingham), King's Norton South (Birmingham), Longbridge & West Heath (Birmingham), Northfield (Birmingham), Quinton (Birmingham), Rubery & Rednal (Birmingham), Weoley & Selly Oak (Birmingham), Abbey (Sandwell), Bristnall (Sandwell), Old Warley (Sandwell).
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Catchment membership is a category boundary (categories 2, 3 and 4 turn on living inside or outside the catchment area) and distance from the school is the ranking or tie-break rule inside categories 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. (the school policy)
The school measures from: A point decided by the school, the front gates. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, B32 4BT, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Looked After Children / Previously Looked After Children who achieve the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score and then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- If fewer than 25% of places offered (rounded to the nearest whole number) are offered to applicants in category 2, offers will be made to children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live outside the catchment area, until a total of 25% of places have been offered. If 25% or more of places available have been offered to applicants in category 2, there will be no offers made from this category. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants who achieve the priority score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be given priority if they have an older sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants achieving the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 205 and priority score 224 for 2027 entry, published by the Foundation before the test. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 2027 entry = 205 (the school policy)
- Priority score 2027 entry = 224 (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | 232, 5075 metres (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 5,075 metres |
| 2025 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | 237 (237) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | 4384 metres (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 4,384 metres |
| 2025 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | 4918 metres (All offered by September) (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 4,918 metres |
| 2024 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | 5625 metres in March* (All offered by September) (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 5,625 metres |
| 2026 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | No offers made from this category in March (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | No offers in March (240 by September) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | No offers in March (231 by September) (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Cut-off figures in brackets are the September position after waiting-list movement, not the March offer. (the document this comes from)
- The Foundation does not release raw scores or mark totals, and does not re-mark answer sheets. (the document this comes from)
- Achieving the qualifying score is not an offer; offers come from the home local authority on 1 March 2027. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not the same as applying; a local-authority preference form is also required. (the document this comes from)
- Distance is measured by the local authority's computerised system from Ordnance Survey coordinates, not by any tool of ours. (the document this comes from)
- Ward membership, not a radius, decides catchment; check the ward of the exact home address. (the document this comes from)
- Where the final qualifiers cannot be separated, the place is decided by a computerised random draw. (the document this comes from)
- Five Ways has filled on catchment distance in recent years: in 2026 entry the last category 4 offer was at 4,384 metres and no offers at all were made from category 5 in March. (the document this comes from)
- The 2027 policy is published only as a Publitas flipbook titled 'Admissions Policy for September 2027'; its underlying file name still says 'Proposed'. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The school publishes its September 2027 policy only inside a Publitas viewer, and the file behind the viewer is still named "proposed". The ward list and the criteria here were read through that viewer rather than from a policy document the school serves directly. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.kefw.org. Read 8 September 2026.
King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys #
Birmingham admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Named electoral wards; a home address is in catchment if its ward is on the list. No radius is used. (the school policy) 17 named electoral wards across Birmingham and Sandwell. (the list itself)
The 17 electoral wards the policy names+
Birchfield (Birmingham), Edgbaston (Birmingham), Handsworth (Birmingham), Handsworth Wood (Birmingham), Holyhead (Birmingham), Kingstanding (Birmingham), Ladywood (Birmingham), Lozells (Birmingham), Newtown (Birmingham), North Edgbaston (Birmingham), Oscott (Birmingham), Perry Barr (Birmingham), Soho & Jewellery Quarter (Birmingham), Smethwick (Sandwell), Soho & Victoria (Sandwell), St Paul's (Sandwell), West Bromwich Central (Sandwell).
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Catchment membership is a category boundary (categories 2, 3 and 4 turn on living inside or outside the catchment area) and distance from the school is the ranking or tie-break rule inside categories 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. (the school policy)
The school measures from: A point decided by the school, the front gates. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, B21 9ET, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Looked After Children / Previously Looked After Children who achieve the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score and then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- If fewer than 25% of places offered (rounded to the nearest whole number) are offered to applicants in category 2, offers will be made to children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live outside the catchment area, until a total of 25% of places have been offered. If 25% or more of places available have been offered to applicants in category 2, there will be no offers made from this category. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants who achieve the priority score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be given priority if they have an older sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants achieving the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 205 and priority score 224 for 2027 entry, published by the Foundation before the test. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 2027 entry = 205 (the school policy)
- Priority score 2027 entry = 224 (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | 211, 6776 metres (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 6,776 metres |
| 2025 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 216, 13733 metres (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 13,733 metres |
| 2025 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 216 (212) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 217 (213) (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Cut-off figures in brackets are the September position after waiting-list movement, not the March offer. (the document this comes from)
- The Foundation does not release raw scores or mark totals, and does not re-mark answer sheets. (the document this comes from)
- Achieving the qualifying score is not an offer; offers come from the home local authority on 1 March 2027. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not the same as applying; a local-authority preference form is also required. (the document this comes from)
- Distance is measured by the local authority's computerised system from Ordnance Survey coordinates, not by any tool of ours. (the document this comes from)
- Ward membership, not a radius, decides catchment; check the ward of the exact home address. (the document this comes from)
- Where the final qualifiers cannot be separated, the place is decided by a computerised random draw. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The school serves its 2027 policy from a SharePoint guest link that returns a web page rather than the document. The policy here was read from the King Edward VI Foundation's own copy of the same file, and the catchment map on the school site labels only part of the ward list. (the page that was checked)
- The school's own site serves its 2027 policy from a SharePoint guest link that will not return the file to a non-browser client (HTML returned, not PDF). The identical policy was read from the Foundation's copy instead. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.handsworth.bham.sch.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls #
Birmingham admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Named electoral wards; a home address is in catchment if its ward is on the list. No radius is used. (the school policy) 47 named electoral wards across Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull. (the list itself)
The 47 electoral wards the policy names+
Alum Rock (Birmingham), Aston (Birmingham), Birchfield (Birmingham), Bromford & Hodge Hill (Birmingham), Castle Vale (Birmingham), Edgbaston (Birmingham), Erdington (Birmingham), Garretts Green (Birmingham), Glebe Farm & Tile Cross (Birmingham), Gravelly Hill (Birmingham), Handsworth (Birmingham), Handsworth Wood (Birmingham), Heartlands (Birmingham), Holyhead (Birmingham), Kingstanding (Birmingham), Ladywood (Birmingham), Lozells (Birmingham), Nechells (Birmingham), Newtown (Birmingham), North Edgbaston (Birmingham), Oscott (Birmingham), Perry Barr (Birmingham), Perry Common (Birmingham), Pype Hayes (Birmingham), Shard End (Birmingham), Sheldon (Birmingham), Soho & Jewellery Quarter (Birmingham), Stockland Green (Birmingham), Sutton Four Oaks (Birmingham), Sutton Mere Green (Birmingham), Sutton Reddicap (Birmingham), Sutton Roughley (Birmingham), Sutton Trinity (Birmingham), Sutton Vesey (Birmingham), Sutton Walmley & Minworth (Birmingham), Sutton Wylde Green (Birmingham), Ward End (Birmingham), Yardley East (Birmingham), Yardley West & Stechford (Birmingham), Smethwick (Sandwell), Soho & Victoria (Sandwell), St Pauls (Sandwell), West Bromwich (Sandwell), Castle Bromwich (Solihull), Chelmsley Wood (Solihull), Kingshurst & Fordbridge (Solihull), Smith's Wood (Solihull).
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Catchment membership is a category boundary (categories 2, 3 and 4 turn on living inside or outside the catchment area) and distance from the school is the ranking or tie-break rule inside categories 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. (the school policy)
The school measures from: A point decided by the school, the front gates. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, B21 9AR, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Looked After Children / Previously Looked After Children who achieve the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score and then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- If fewer than 25% of places offered (rounded to the nearest whole number) are offered to applicants in category 2, offers will be made to children attracting the Pupil Premium who achieve the qualifying score and live outside the catchment area, until a total of 25% of places have been offered. If 25% or more of places available have been offered to applicants in category 2, there will be no offers made from this category. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants who achieve the priority score and live within the school catchment area*. Applicants in this category will be given priority if they have an older sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Applicants achieving the qualifying score. Applicants in this category will be ranked by test score. Where scores are equal, priority will be given to those with a sibling** at the school; then ranked by distance from the school. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 205 and priority score 224 for 2027 entry, published by the Foundation before the test. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 2027 entry = 205 (the school policy)
- Priority score 2027 entry = 224 (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | No offers from this category in March (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | 222 (All offered by September) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area | No offers made from this category in March. (All offered by September) (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 4 – Applicants achieving 224 and above and living within the catchment area | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 219, 8195 metres (published figure)Distance decided the last place: 8,195 metres |
| 2025 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 216 (212) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 5 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 217 (214) (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Cut-off figures in brackets are the September position after waiting-list movement, not the March offer. (the document this comes from)
- The Foundation does not release raw scores or mark totals, and does not re-mark answer sheets. (the document this comes from)
- Achieving the qualifying score is not an offer; offers come from the home local authority on 1 March 2027. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not the same as applying; a local-authority preference form is also required. (the document this comes from)
- Distance is measured by the local authority's computerised system from Ordnance Survey coordinates, not by any tool of ours. (the document this comes from)
- Ward membership, not a radius, decides catchment; check the ward of the exact home address. (the document this comes from)
- Where the final qualifiers cannot be separated, the place is decided by a computerised random draw. (the document this comes from)
School website: kingedwardvi.bham.sch.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls #
Birmingham admissions group · Arrangements read: 2025 (last full determined arrangements document we could read; the school's own September 2027 arrangements PDF is blocked, see unverified. 2027 procedural detail below comes from the school's own Year 7 Admissions page.) (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. No catchment area and no priority zone. Residence does not affect eligibility or ranking; distance is used only to separate equal scores. (the school policy)
What distance does here. Tie-break only. Where several candidates have the same score and only one place is available, offers will be made: Firstly to looked-after or previously looked-after children, Second to students eligible for the Pupil Premium and, Lastly to those who live closest to the School. (the school policy)
The school measures from: The main reception of the School. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, B73 5PT, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Looked After / Previously Looked After (including internationally) children with the qualifying score, by rank order of standardised score. (the school policy)
- Pupil Premium children with the qualifying score, by rank order of standardised score, capped at 36. (the school policy)
- All other children with the qualifying score, by rank order of standardised score. (the school policy)
- No sibling priority in the oversubscription criteria. (the school policy)
- Qualifying score 205 (the figure the arrangements set for September 2025; the Foundation publishes 205 for 2027 entry too). (the school policy)
- Qualifying score for 2027 entry is 205. (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above | 215 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above | 214 (211) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above | All offered (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 227 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 3 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 229 (224) (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories | 229 (227) (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- Cut-off figures in brackets are the September position after waiting-list movement, not the March offer. (the document this comes from)
- The Foundation does not release raw scores or mark totals, and does not re-mark answer sheets. (the document this comes from)
- Achieving the qualifying score is not an offer; offers come from the home local authority on 1 March 2027. (the document this comes from)
- Sitting the test is not the same as applying; a local-authority preference form is also required. (the document this comes from)
- This school has no catchment: where a family lives changes nothing except which pupil wins a tie on equal scores. (the document this comes from)
- The school is part of the West Midlands Grammar Schools consortium, not the King Edward VI Foundation, though the Foundation publishes its cut-off scores. (the document this comes from)
- The criteria and measuring-point wording quoted here are from the September 2025 determined arrangements; the school's September 2027 arrangements PDF could not be retrieved and must be re-checked before a parent relies on it. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The school's own September 2027 arrangements return HTTP 403 to every client the research tried, and the school policies index returns HTTP 404. The 2027 criteria and measuring point were read from an archived copy of the document instead of from the school's live one, and the rules shown here are the 2025 determined arrangements the council published. (the page that was checked)
- The school's own 'Admission Arrangements for September 2027' PDF is served from an nginx endpoint that returns 403 Forbidden to every client we tried (browser user-agent, referer, full navigation headers, http/1.1, and WebFetch). Its criteria, pupil premium cap and measuring point could not be confirmed for 2027. (the page that was checked)
- School policies index page returns 404 at the path linked from site navigation, so no alternative on-site copy of the 2027 arrangements was found. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.suttcold.bham.sch.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
Alcester Grammar School #
Warwickshire admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 entry (2027/28), determined arrangements published by the school (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. A single priority area defined as a circle of radius 16.936 miles centred on the Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, the radius being the distance from that fountain to the County boundary south of Long Compton. Note the centre point is in Stratford-upon-Avon, roughly 8 miles from the school itself. (the school policy)
- The priority circle. Measured within 16.936 miles from The Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The school's policy centres this circle on the Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, and publishes no coordinates for it. This tool uses the centroid of CV37 6LU, the postcode of the American Fountain in Rother Street, which Pathway Eleven chose. It is the centre of that postcode, not the monument itself, so a result within a few hundred metres of the boundary is not one to rely on. Coordinates read from postcodes.io on 8 September 2026. (the coordinate we used)
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. The 16.936-mile priority circle is a category boundary (inside = Category 3, outside = Category 4, and outside-area children are normally only offered in round one if there are too few able children inside). Beyond that, distance is only a tie-break between children on the same score within a category. (the school policy)
The school measures from: Home: Ordnance Survey address-point location coordinate of the home address. School: the school's centroid, a predetermined point. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, B49 5ED, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- EHCP naming the school (admitted first, subject to the Required Minimum Academic Standard) (the school policy)
- Category 1: Looked-After / Previously Looked-After Children at the AQS or above, or up to 20 marks below it (the school policy)
- Category 2: Pupil Premium (via Free School Meals) children living within the priority circle, at the AQS or up to 20 marks below, categories 1 and 2 together give at most 20 below-AQS places (the school policy)
- Category 3: children living in the priority area at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Category 4: children living outside the priority area at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Category 5: children below the AQS but above the Required Minimum Academic Standard (waiting list) (the school policy)
- No sibling priority is published for Year 7 entry at this school; there is no sibling category in the 2027/28 oversubscription list. (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Automatic qualifying score | 225 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 220 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 (in priority area, AQS or above): lowest score offered | 227 (published figure)Offers made: 143 |
| 2026 | Category 4 (outside priority area): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2026 | Categories 1 and 2 (LAC / Pupil Premium): lowest score offered | Not published (due to Data Protection) (published figure)Offers made: 7 |
| 2026 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2025 | Automatic qualifying score | 220 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 214 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 3 (in priority area, AQS or above): lowest score offered | 224 (published figure)Offers made: 146 |
| 2025 | Category 4 (outside priority area): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2025 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2024 | Automatic qualifying score | 220 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 214 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 (in priority area, AQS or above): lowest score offered | 221 (published figure)Offers made: 149 |
| 2024 | Category 4 (outside priority area): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2024 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- All six Warwickshire selective schools are their own admission authority, use one common 11 plus test, and have their qualifying scores set each year by a Committee of Reference during Warwickshire's Local Review Process after the test is sat. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire tells parents each school publishes its own arrangements and that priority is usually given to high scorers living in the school's priority (catchment) area. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire ranks within each oversubscription category by 11 plus score first; straight-line distance is used only to separate applicants on the same score. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire's published offer-day leaflets for 2024, 2025 and 2026 entry give qualifying scores, minimum waiting-list scores, offers per category and the lowest score offered per category. They publish no distance cut-off (no 'last distance offered') for any of the six schools. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The school's Admissions Arrangements page is headed 'Admission Arrangements - 2026 Entry' while linking a determined 2027/28 policy PDF; the page heading was not updated. The 2027/28 PDF itself was used. (the page that was checked)
- School contact page returns no address in server-rendered HTML; postal address taken from GOV.UK Get Information About Schools instead. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.alcestergs.co.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
Ashlawn School #
Warwickshire admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 entry (2027/28), Transforming Lives Educational Trust admissions policy for Ashlawn School (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Ashlawn is a bilateral academy, not a grammar school. Its grammar-stream (selective) places use two geographic zones shared with the other Rugby selective schools: (1) the Eastern Area of Warwickshire, a named list of Rugby plus 36 parishes, and (2) the Eastern-area Priority Circle, a circle of radius 10.004 miles centred on the Rugby Water Tower. Its non-selective places use Ashlawn School's own priority area, a mapped catchment on Warwickshire County Council's interactive secondary-school maps, not a circle. (the school policy) 37 named parishes. (the list itself)
- The Eastern Area priority circle. Measured within 10.004 miles from The Rugby Water Tower.
The schools' policies centre this circle on the Rugby Water Tower and publish no coordinates for it. This tool uses the centroid of CV22 7EA, a Bilton Road, Rugby postcode at the water tower, which Pathway Eleven chose. It is the centre of that postcode, not the tower itself, so a result within a few hundred metres of the boundary is not one to rely on. Coordinates read from postcodes.io on 8 September 2026. (the coordinate we used)
The 37 parishes the policy names+
Rugby, Dunchurch, Cawston, Thurlaston, Leamington Hastings, Birdingbury, Grandborough, Wolfhamcote, Willoughby, Binley Woods, Brinklow, Brandon and Bretford, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Bubbenhall, Wolston, Church Lawford, Long Lawford, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Princethorpe, Frankton, Marton, Bourton and Draycote, Churchover, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Combe Fields, Cosford, Easenhall, Harborough Magna, Kings Newnham, Little Lawford, Monks Kirby, Newton and Biggin, Pailton, Stretton-under-Fosse, Wibtoft, Willey, Withybrook.
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. For the selective stream, geography is a category boundary: 15 places ring-fenced to the Eastern Area, 16 to the 10.004-mile priority circle, and outside-area applicants only if those go unfilled. For non-selective places, the mapped Ashlawn priority area is also a category boundary. Within every criterion, straight-line distance to the academy is the tie-break, shortest first, then a lottery. (the school policy)
The school measures from: Home: Ordnance Survey address-point coordinate of the home address. School: the centre point ('centroid') of the academy. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, CV22 5ET, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- EHCP naming Ashlawn School, offered a place first (the school policy)
- 1. Looked-after and previously looked-after children (the school policy)
- 2. Up to 31 selective places to students at the Automatic Qualifying Score, split 2a Eastern Area (up to 15, Pupil Premium first), 2b priority circle (up to 16, Pupil Premium first), 2c outside the priority area, 2d unfilled selective places become non-selective (the school policy)
- 3. Up to 25 aptitude places by Modern Language aptitude test score (the school policy)
- 4. Non-selective places: (a) same-year siblings of a selective/aptitude admittee, (b) siblings living in the priority area, (c) siblings living outside it, (d) children living within the priority area (the school policy)
- 5 and 6. Children of permanent TLET staff (with a sibling on roll first), two years' service (the school policy)
- 7 and final. Siblings living outside the priority areas, then any other children (the school policy)
- Qualifying-score rule for the selective stream: the AQS is set by the Eastern Area Committee of Reference after the test; siblings get no special consideration in the selective allocation. (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Automatic qualifying score | 208 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 204 (published figure) |
| 2026 | 2a.2 Eastern Area of Warwickshire at the qualifying score or above: lowest score offered | 210 (published figure)Offers made: 15 |
| 2026 | 2b.2 East Circle of Warwickshire at the qualifying score or above: lowest score offered | 208 (published figure)Offers made: 16 |
| 2026 | 2c outside the priority area: lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2026 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2025 | Automatic qualifying score | 208 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 204 (published figure) |
| 2025 | 2a.2 Eastern Area of Warwickshire: lowest score offered | 215 (published figure)Offers made: 15 |
| 2025 | 2b.2 East Circle of Warwickshire: lowest score offered | 212 (published figure)Offers made: 16 |
| 2025 | 2c outside the priority area: lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2025 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2024 | Automatic qualifying score | 208 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 204 (published figure) |
| 2024 | 2a.2 Eastern Area of Warwickshire: lowest score offered | 211 (published figure)Offers made: 14 |
| 2024 | 2b.2 East Circle of Warwickshire: lowest score offered | 209 (published figure)Offers made: 4 |
| 2024 | 2c outside the priority area: lowest score offered | 210 (published figure)Offers made: 12 |
| 2024 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- All six Warwickshire selective schools are their own admission authority, use one common 11 plus test, and have their qualifying scores set each year by a Committee of Reference during Warwickshire's Local Review Process after the test is sat. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire tells parents each school publishes its own arrangements and that priority is usually given to high scorers living in the school's priority (catchment) area. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire ranks within each oversubscription category by 11 plus score first; straight-line distance is used only to separate applicants on the same score. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire's published offer-day leaflets for 2024, 2025 and 2026 entry give qualifying scores, minimum waiting-list scores, offers per category and the lowest score offered per category. They publish no distance cut-off (no 'last distance offered') for any of the six schools. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The school's own copy of the 2027-2028 policy was not fetched. The identical policy was read from the trust's site at tlet.org.uk, which the school's admissions pages link to. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.ashlawn.org.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon #
Warwickshire admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 entry, determined 11 December 2025 (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Two concentric circles drawn from the Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon: an inner priority circle of 13 miles and an outer priority circle of 16.936 miles (the distance to the County boundary south of Long Compton). (the school policy)
- The inner priority circle. Measured within 13 miles from The Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.
- The outer priority circle. Measured between 13 and 16.936 miles from The Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The school's policy centres this circle on the Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, and publishes no coordinates for it. This tool uses the centroid of CV37 6LU, the postcode of the American Fountain in Rother Street, which Pathway Eleven chose. It is the centre of that postcode, not the monument itself, so a result within a few hundred metres of the boundary is not one to rely on. Coordinates read from postcodes.io on 8 September 2026. (the coordinate we used)
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. The 13-mile inner circle is a category boundary carrying a ring-fenced 70 of the 87 places; the 16.936-mile outer circle is a second boundary (Category 4); outside it is Category 5, and outside-circle children are normally offered in round one only if there are too few able children inside. Within a category, straight-line distance is the tie-break on equal scores. (the school policy)
The school measures from: Home: Ordnance Survey address-point location coordinate of the home address. School: the school's centroid, a predetermined point. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, CV37 6BE, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Category 1: Looked-After / Previously Looked-After Children at the AQS or above, or up to 20 marks below it (the school policy)
- Category 2: Pupil Premium (Free School Meals) children in the outer circle (inner included), at the AQS or up to 20 marks below, max 13 places (the school policy)
- Category 3: up to 70 places to children in the inner 13-mile circle at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Category 4: children in the outer 16.936-mile circle (inner included) at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Category 5: children outside the outer circle at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Category 6: below the AQS but above the Required Minimum Academic Standard (waiting list) (the school policy)
- No sibling priority: the 2027 oversubscription list contains no sibling category. (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Automatic qualifying score | 239 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 230 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 (inner priority circle, up to 70 places): lowest score offered | 239 (published figure)Offers made: 67 |
| 2026 | Category 4 (outer priority circle): lowest score offered | 254 (published figure)Offers made: 13 |
| 2026 | Category 5 (outside the outer circle): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2026 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2025 | Automatic qualifying score | 233 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 231 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 3 (inner priority circle, up to 70 places): lowest score offered | 235 (published figure)Offers made: 70 |
| 2025 | Category 4 (outer priority circle): lowest score offered | 263 (published figure)Offers made: 7 |
| 2025 | Category 5 (outside the outer circle): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2025 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2024 | Automatic qualifying score | 232 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 230 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 (inner priority circle, up to 70 places): lowest score offered | 232 (published figure)Offers made: 68 |
| 2024 | Category 4 (outer priority circle): lowest score offered | 252 (published figure)Offers made: 15 |
| 2024 | Category 5 (outside the outer circle): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2024 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- All six Warwickshire selective schools are their own admission authority, use one common 11 plus test, and have their qualifying scores set each year by a Committee of Reference during Warwickshire's Local Review Process after the test is sat. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire tells parents each school publishes its own arrangements and that priority is usually given to high scorers living in the school's priority (catchment) area. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire ranks within each oversubscription category by 11 plus score first; straight-line distance is used only to separate applicants on the same score. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire's published offer-day leaflets for 2024, 2025 and 2026 entry give qualifying scores, minimum waiting-list scores, offers per category and the lowest score offered per category. They publish no distance cut-off (no 'last distance offered') for any of the six schools. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- Warwickshire's directory record for KES lists only 2024/25, 2025/26 and 2026/27 arrangements; the determined 2027 policy was taken from the school's own admissions page. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.kes.net. Read 8 September 2026.
Lawrence Sheriff School #
Warwickshire admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 entry (2027-28), determined arrangements (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Two catchment areas apply. (1) The Eastern Area of Warwickshire, not a circle but a named list: Rugby plus 36 named parishes, being the aggregated catchment areas of Bilton, Ashlawn and Avon Valley Schools. (2) The Priority Circle, a circle of radius 10.004 miles centred on the Rugby Water Tower, which includes the Eastern Area. (the school policy) 37 named parishes. (the list itself)
- The priority circle. Measured within 10.004 miles from The Rugby Water Tower.
The schools' policies centre this circle on the Rugby Water Tower and publish no coordinates for it. This tool uses the centroid of CV22 7EA, a Bilton Road, Rugby postcode at the water tower, which Pathway Eleven chose. It is the centre of that postcode, not the tower itself, so a result within a few hundred metres of the boundary is not one to rely on. Coordinates read from postcodes.io on 8 September 2026. (the coordinate we used)
The 37 parishes the policy names+
Rugby, Dunchurch, Cawston, Thurlaston, Leamington Hastings, Birdingbury, Grandborough, Wolfhamcote, Willoughby, Binley Woods, Brinklow, Brandon and Bretford, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Bubbenhall, Wolston, Church Lawford, Long Lawford, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Princethorpe, Frankton, Marton, Bourton and Draycote, Churchover, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Combe Fields, Cosford, Easenhall, Harborough Magna, Kings Newnham, Little Lawford, Monks Kirby, Newton and Biggin, Pailton, Stretton-under-Fosse, Wibtoft, Willey, Withybrook.
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Geography is a category boundary twice over: Criterion 5 is the named-parish Eastern Area, Criterion 6 the wider 10.004-mile Priority Circle, and only Criterion 9 reaches children outside both. Within every criterion, distance is a tie-break used after score and after Pupil/Service Premium status. (the school policy)
The school measures from: Home: Ordnance Survey address-point coordinate of the home address. School: the centre point ('centroid') of the school, located at the centre of the doorway to the Headteacher's Office. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, CV21 3AG, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Criterion 1: Looked-after and previously looked-after children at the AQS or above, or 1–20 marks below it, or at the minimum waiting-list standard, whichever is lower (the school policy)
- Criterion 2: up to 30 places to Pupil Premium children living in the Eastern Area of Warwickshire or the Priority Circle (AQS, or 1–20 below, or minimum standard) (the school policy)
- Criterion 3: up to 5 places to Service Premium children living in the Eastern Area or the Priority Circle, on the same score rule (the school policy)
- Criterion 4: children of staff with two or more years' service, at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Criterion 5: children living in the eastern area of Warwickshire at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Criterion 6: children living in the priority circle at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Criterion 7: balance of the 30 Pupil Premium places to Pupil Premium children living outside the catchment areas (the school policy)
- Criterion 8: balance of the 5 Service Premium places to Service Premium children living outside the catchment areas (the school policy)
- Criterion 9: children living outside the catchment areas at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Criterion 10: children inside or outside the catchment areas at the minimum waiting-list standard (the school policy)
- Ranking and tie-break within every criterion: highest 11 plus score first, then Pupil/Service Premium, then shortest straight-line distance, then a witnessed computerised random allocation. No sibling priority. (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Automatic qualifying score | 213 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 210 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 5 (Eastern Area of Warwickshire): lowest score offered | 213 (published figure)Offers made: 134 |
| 2026 | Category 6 (Priority Circle): lowest score offered | 241 (published figure)Offers made: 3 |
| 2026 | Category 9 (outside the catchment areas): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2026 | Category 2 (Pupil Premium): lowest score offered | Not published (due to Data Protection) (published figure)Offers made: 12 |
| 2026 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2025 | Automatic qualifying score | 212 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 209 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 4 (Eastern Area of Warwickshire): lowest score offered | 212 (published figure)Offers made: 123 |
| 2025 | Category 5 (Priority Circle): lowest score offered | 232 (published figure)Offers made: 13 |
| 2025 | Category 8 (outside the catchment areas): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2025 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2024 | Automatic qualifying score | 212 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 209 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Criterion 4 (Eastern Area of Warwickshire): lowest score offered | 212 (published figure)Offers made: 100 |
| 2024 | Criterion 5 (Priority Circle): lowest score offered | 217 (published figure)Offers made: 38 |
| 2024 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- All six Warwickshire selective schools are their own admission authority, use one common 11 plus test, and have their qualifying scores set each year by a Committee of Reference during Warwickshire's Local Review Process after the test is sat. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire tells parents each school publishes its own arrangements and that priority is usually given to high scorers living in the school's priority (catchment) area. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire ranks within each oversubscription category by 11 plus score first; straight-line distance is used only to separate applicants on the same score. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire's published offer-day leaflets for 2024, 2025 and 2026 entry give qualifying scores, minimum waiting-list scores, offers per category and the lowest score offered per category. They publish no distance cut-off (no 'last distance offered') for any of the six schools. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- School admissions page URL returned HTTP 404; the determined 2027/28 arrangements were taken from Warwickshire County Council's directory record for the school (https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/directory-record/6610/lawrence-sheriff-school). (the page that was checked)
School website: www.lawrencesheriffschool.net. Read 8 September 2026.
Rugby High School #
Warwickshire admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 entry (2027-28), determined arrangements (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. Two catchment areas apply. (1) The Eastern Area of Warwickshire, not a circle but a named list: Rugby plus 36 named parishes, being the aggregated catchment areas of Bilton, Ashlawn and Avon Valley Schools. (2) The Priority Circle, a circle of radius 10.004 miles centred on the Rugby Water Tower, which includes the Eastern Area. (the school policy) 37 named parishes. (the list itself)
- The priority circle. Measured within 10.004 miles from The Rugby Water Tower.
The schools' policies centre this circle on the Rugby Water Tower and publish no coordinates for it. This tool uses the centroid of CV22 7EA, a Bilton Road, Rugby postcode at the water tower, which Pathway Eleven chose. It is the centre of that postcode, not the tower itself, so a result within a few hundred metres of the boundary is not one to rely on. Coordinates read from postcodes.io on 8 September 2026. (the coordinate we used)
The 37 parishes the policy names+
Rugby, Dunchurch, Cawston, Thurlaston, Leamington Hastings, Birdingbury, Grandborough, Wolfhamcote, Willoughby, Binley Woods, Brinklow, Brandon and Bretford, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Bubbenhall, Wolston, Church Lawford, Long Lawford, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Princethorpe, Frankton, Marton, Bourton and Draycote, Churchover, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Combe Fields, Cosford, Easenhall, Harborough Magna, Kings Newnham, Little Lawford, Monks Kirby, Newton and Biggin, Pailton, Stretton-under-Fosse, Wibtoft, Willey, Withybrook.
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. Geography is a category boundary twice over: Criterion 5 is the named-parish Eastern Area, Criterion 6 the wider 10.004-mile Priority Circle, and only Criterion 9 reaches children outside both. Within every criterion, distance is a tie-break used after score and after Pupil/Service Premium status. (the school policy)
The school measures from: Home: Ordnance Survey address-point coordinate of the home address. School: the centre point ('centroid') of the school, located at the centre of the doorway to the Headteacher's Office. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, CV22 7RE, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Criterion 1: Looked-after and previously looked-after children at the AQS or above, or 1–20 marks below it, or at the minimum waiting-list standard, whichever is lower (the school policy)
- Criterion 2: up to 30 places to Pupil Premium children living in the Eastern Area of Warwickshire or the Priority Circle (AQS, or 1–20 below, or minimum standard) (the school policy)
- Criterion 3: up to 5 places to Service Premium children living in the Eastern Area or the Priority Circle, on the same score rule (the school policy)
- Criterion 4: children of staff with two or more years' service, at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Criterion 5: children living in the eastern area of Warwickshire at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Criterion 6: children living in the priority circle at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Criterion 7: balance of the 30 Pupil Premium places to Pupil Premium children living outside the catchment areas (the school policy)
- Criterion 8: balance of the 5 Service Premium places to Service Premium children living outside the catchment areas (the school policy)
- Criterion 9: children living outside the catchment areas at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Criterion 10: children inside or outside the catchment areas at the minimum waiting-list standard (the school policy)
- Ranking and tie-break within every criterion: highest 11 plus score first, then Pupil/Service Premium, then shortest straight-line distance, then a witnessed computerised random allocation. No sibling priority. (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Automatic qualifying score | 213 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 210 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 (Area 1 – East Warwickshire, up to 50 places): lowest score offered | 227 (published figure)Offers made: 50 |
| 2026 | Category 4 (Area 2 – Eastern Priority Circle): lowest score offered | 213 (published figure)Offers made: 80 |
| 2026 | Category 5 (inside or outside the priority areas): lowest score offered | 233 (published figure)Offers made: 6 |
| 2026 | Category 2 (Pupil Premium): lowest score offered | Not published (due to Data Protection) (published figure)Offers made: 13 |
| 2026 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2025 | Automatic qualifying score | 213 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 210 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 3 (Area 1 – East Warwickshire, up to 50 places): lowest score offered | 234 (published figure)Offers made: 50 |
| 2025 | Category 4 (Area 2 – Eastern Priority Circle): lowest score offered | 222 (published figure)Offers made: 62 |
| 2025 | Category 5 (inside or outside the priority areas): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2025 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2024 | Automatic qualifying score | 212 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 209 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 (Area 1, East Warwickshire, up to 50): lowest score offered | 224 (published figure)Offers made: 50 |
| 2024 | Category 4 (Area 2, Eastern Priority Circle): lowest score offered | 214 (published figure)Offers made: 56 |
| 2024 | Category 5 (outside the priority area): lowest score offered | NA (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2024 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- All six Warwickshire selective schools are their own admission authority, use one common 11 plus test, and have their qualifying scores set each year by a Committee of Reference during Warwickshire's Local Review Process after the test is sat. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire tells parents each school publishes its own arrangements and that priority is usually given to high scorers living in the school's priority (catchment) area. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire ranks within each oversubscription category by 11 plus score first; straight-line distance is used only to separate applicants on the same score. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire's published offer-day leaflets for 2024, 2025 and 2026 entry give qualifying scores, minimum waiting-list scores, offers per category and the lowest score offered per category. They publish no distance cut-off (no 'last distance offered') for any of the six schools. (the document this comes from)
School website: www.rugbyhighschool.co.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
Stratford Girls' Grammar School #
Warwickshire admissions group · Arrangements read: 2027 entry, determined arrangements published by the school (the arrangements)
Catchment or priority area. A single priority circle of radius 16.936 miles drawn from the Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon to the County boundary south of Long Compton. (the school policy)
- The priority circle. Measured within 16.936 miles from The Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The school's policy centres this circle on the Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, and publishes no coordinates for it. This tool uses the centroid of CV37 6LU, the postcode of the American Fountain in Rother Street, which Pathway Eleven chose. It is the centre of that postcode, not the monument itself, so a result within a few hundred metres of the boundary is not one to rely on. Coordinates read from postcodes.io on 8 September 2026. (the coordinate we used)
What distance does here. Category boundary first, then tie-break. The 16.936-mile priority circle is a category boundary (Category 3 inside, Category 4 outside), and outside-circle children are offered in round one only if there are too few able children inside. Otherwise distance is a tie-break on equal scores. (the school policy)
The school measures from: Home: Ordnance Survey address-point location coordinate of the home address. School: the school's centroid, a predetermined point. (the school policy) This tool measures from the centre of the school's own postcode, CV37 9HA, which is not that point.
How this school ranks applicants, in its own order+
- Category 1: Looked-After / Previously Looked-After Children at the AQS or above, or up to twenty marks below it (the school policy)
- Category 2: Pupil Premium (Free School Meals) children living within the priority circle, at the AQS or up to 20 marks below, max 19 places (the school policy)
- Category 3: children living within the priority circle at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Category 4: children living outside the priority circle at the AQS or above (the school policy)
- Category 5: below the AQS but above the Required Minimum Academic Standard (waiting list) (the school policy)
- No sibling priority: the 2027 oversubscription list contains no sibling category. (the school policy)
| Entry year | Category | As published |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Automatic qualifying score | 227 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 224 (published figure) |
| 2026 | Category 3 (within the priority circle): lowest score offered | 232 (published figure)Offers made: 110 |
| 2026 | Category 4 (outside the priority circle): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2026 | Category 2 (Pupil Premium): lowest score offered | Not published (due to Data Protection) (published figure)Offers made: 9 |
| 2026 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2025 | Automatic qualifying score | 226 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 224 (published figure) |
| 2025 | Category 3 (within the priority circle): lowest score offered | 232 (published figure)Offers made: 114 |
| 2025 | Category 4 (outside the priority circle): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2025 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
| 2024 | Automatic qualifying score | 226 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Minimum score for the waiting list | 224 (published figure) |
| 2024 | Category 3 (within the priority circle): lowest score offered | 226 (published figure)Offers made: 116 |
| 2024 | Category 4 (outside the priority circle): lowest score offered | N/A (published figure)Offers made: 0 |
| 2024 | Distance cut-off | Not published. Warwickshire's offer-day leaflet publishes scores only; no distance figures are given for any category. (published figure) |
Before you act on this
- All six Warwickshire selective schools are their own admission authority, use one common 11 plus test, and have their qualifying scores set each year by a Committee of Reference during Warwickshire's Local Review Process after the test is sat. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire tells parents each school publishes its own arrangements and that priority is usually given to high scorers living in the school's priority (catchment) area. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire ranks within each oversubscription category by 11 plus score first; straight-line distance is used only to separate applicants on the same score. (the document this comes from)
- Warwickshire's published offer-day leaflets for 2024, 2025 and 2026 entry give qualifying scores, minimum waiting-list scores, offers per category and the lowest score offered per category. They publish no distance cut-off (no 'last distance offered') for any of the six schools. (the document this comes from)
What could not be checked for this school
- The school's site map and directions page returned HTTP 404. The postal address here was read from the school's own Contact Us page instead. (the page that was checked)
School website: www.sggs.org.uk. Read 8 September 2026.
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| School | Admissions group | Catchment or priority area | What distance does | Latest published cut-offs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haberdashers' Adams | Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall | A named listThe designated primary school listChecked against named primary schools | Tie-break only | None published |
| Newport Girls' High School | Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall | A drawn map onlyThe Newport boundary areaChecked against a drawn map | Category boundary, then tie-break | September 2026 Minimum Qualifying Score: 192 (published figure) LAC/PLAC/PP Qualifying Score: 183 (published figure) Lowest out-of-area score offered a place on National Offers Day: 215 (published figure) |
| Queen Mary's Grammar School | Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall | No catchment or priority areaNo zone is publishedChecked against named primary schools | No part at all | 2026 entry Minimum Qualifying Score: 200* (published figure) Lowest score offered a place (non-PP, National Offer Day): 225 (published figure) |
| Queen Mary's High School | Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall | No catchment or priority areaNo zone is publishedChecked against named primary schools | No part at all | September 2026 Minimum Qualifying Score: 200 (published figure) Lowest score allocated a place (PP): 200 (published figure) Lowest score allocated a place (non-PP): 212 (published figure) |
| Wolverhampton Girls' High School | Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall | No catchment or priority areaNo zone is publishedNo named list | Tie-break only | September 2026 Lowest test score to gain an automatic place: 208 (published figure) Lowest Pupil Premium test score to gain an automatic place: 203 (published figure) Waiting list range: 204 to 208 (published figure) |
| Bishop Vesey's Grammar School | Birmingham | One or more circlesZone 1: 12 miles from The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School Zone 2: 12 to 20 miles from The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School Zone 3: 20 to beyond the outer circle from The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance, Bishop Vesey's Grammar SchoolNo named list |
Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above: All offered (published figure) Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above: 210 (published figure) Category 3 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories: 229 (published figure) |
| King Edward VI Aston School | Birmingham | A named listThe catchment areaChecked against electoral wards | Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above: All offered (published figure) Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area: All offered (published figure) Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area: 239 with sibling, 4977 metres (published figure) |
| King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys | Birmingham | A named listThe catchment areaChecked against electoral wards | Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above: All offered (published figure) Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area: All offered (published figure) Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area: No offers made from this category in March (published figure) |
| King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls | Birmingham | A named listThe catchment areaChecked against electoral wards | Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above: All offered (published figure) Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area: All offered (published figure) Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area: No offers made from this category in March (published figure) |
| King Edward VI Five Ways School | Birmingham | A named listThe catchment areaChecked against electoral wards | Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above: All offered (published figure) Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area: All offered (published figure) Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area: 232, 5075 metres (published figure) |
| King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys | Birmingham | A named listThe catchment areaChecked against electoral wards | Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above: All offered (published figure) Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area: All offered (published figure) Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area: 211, 6776 metres (published figure) |
| King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls | Birmingham | A named listThe catchment areaChecked against electoral wards | Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above: All offered (published figure) Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living within the catchment area: All offered (published figure) Category 3 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above and living outside the catchment area: No offers from this category in March (published figure) |
| Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls | Birmingham | No catchment or priority areaNo zone is publishedNo named list | Tie-break only | 2026 Category 1 – Looked After/Previously Looked After applicants scoring 205 and above: All offered (published figure) Category 2 – Pupil Premium applicants scoring 205 and above: 215 (published figure) Category 3 – All other applicants not falling into one of the above categories: 227 (published figure) |
| Alcester Grammar School | Warwickshire | One or more circlesThe priority circle: 16.936 miles from The Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-AvonNo named list | Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Automatic qualifying score: 225 (published figure) Minimum score for the waiting list: 220 (published figure) Category 3 (in priority area, AQS or above): lowest score offered: 227 (published figure) |
| Ashlawn School | Warwickshire | A named list and a circleThe Eastern Area of Warwickshire The Eastern Area priority circle: 10.004 miles from The Rugby Water TowerChecked against parishes |
Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Automatic qualifying score: 208 (published figure) Minimum score for the waiting list: 204 (published figure) 2a.2 Eastern Area of Warwickshire at the qualifying score or above: lowest score offered: 210 (published figure) |
| King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon | Warwickshire | One or more circlesThe inner priority circle: 13 miles from The Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon The outer priority circle: 13 to 16.936 miles from The Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-AvonNo named list |
Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Automatic qualifying score: 239 (published figure) Minimum score for the waiting list: 230 (published figure) Category 3 (inner priority circle, up to 70 places): lowest score offered: 239 (published figure) |
| Lawrence Sheriff School | Warwickshire | A named list and a circleThe Eastern Area of Warwickshire The priority circle: 10.004 miles from The Rugby Water TowerChecked against parishes |
Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Automatic qualifying score: 213 (published figure) Minimum score for the waiting list: 210 (published figure) Category 5 (Eastern Area of Warwickshire): lowest score offered: 213 (published figure) |
| Rugby High School | Warwickshire | A named list and a circleThe Eastern Area of Warwickshire The priority circle: 10.004 miles from The Rugby Water TowerChecked against parishes |
Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Automatic qualifying score: 213 (published figure) Minimum score for the waiting list: 210 (published figure) Category 3 (Area 1 – East Warwickshire, up to 50 places): lowest score offered: 227 (published figure) |
| Stratford Girls' Grammar School | Warwickshire | One or more circlesThe priority circle: 16.936 miles from The Fountain in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-AvonNo named list | Category boundary, then tie-break | 2026 Automatic qualifying score: 227 (published figure) Minimum score for the waiting list: 224 (published figure) Category 3 (within the priority circle): lowest score offered: 232 (published figure) |
How to read this
A catchment area, a priority area and no area are three different things. A catchment area is a named list: a home address is inside it if its ward or its parish is on the list. A priority area is usually a circle with a radius and a named centre. Some schools publish neither, and rank every applicant on score wherever they live.
Score first, then category, then distance. Every school here sets a qualifying score. Below it, an application is not considered. Above it, the school works down its oversubscription categories in order, and distance either decides which category a child sits in or separates two children on the same score inside one. At Queen Mary’s Grammar School and Queen Mary’s High School, distance does neither for Year 7 entry.
The qualifying score is not the score that secured a place. The first is the floor. The second is what the last child offered in a category actually scored, and it can sit well above the floor. The year by year history of both is on the West Midlands 11 plus results tracker.
Siblings and pupil premium places move children up, not in. Several schools give priority to a child with an older sibling at the school, and several ring-fence a share of places for children attracting the pupil premium. Neither replaces the score. Each school’s card lists its own categories in its own order.
Living inside an area does not entitle a child to a place. Alcester Grammar School was oversubscribed inside its priority area in each of the last three years, so an in-area address still had to clear the qualifying score and then survive the ranking. In those same three years it made no offers at all to children living outside the area. Both figures are on the school’s own card.
What happens between the test and the preference form is on the secondary transfer explainer, and the calendar it all sits in is on the West Midlands dates and deadlines page.
How the distance is measured, and what it is worth
Birmingham City Council’s published method is the method this page follows: a straight line between two points on Ordnance Survey coordinates, measured in metres. The arithmetic is Pythagoras on eastings and northings, and there is no latitude or longitude anywhere in it.
What this page cannot do is measure from your house. A postcode centroid is the centre of a postcode, not an address, and a school postcode centroid is not the front gate, the main reception or the foot of the entrance steps that a school names as its measuring point. Both ends of the line are therefore approximate. Use the result to orient yourself, and ask the school or the council’s admissions team before you rely on it.
Postcode lookups on this page are answered by postcodes.io, which asks that the following are shown. They are reproduced word for word.
- Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
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- Contains NRS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
Great Britain postcode data is used under the terms of the Ordnance Survey OpenData licence, and the Open Government Licence v3.0 governs the public sector information within it. The full terms are on the postcodes.io licences page and the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Northern Ireland postcodes, which begin BT, are outside what this tool covers: the licence for that data does not permit commercial use without a licence from Land and Property Services, so the tool does not look them up.
How distance is measured, in the council's own words. These are calculated as a straight line measurement, in metres, between the pupil’s home address and an agreed point at the school site (refer to the school admission arrangements for details). (Birmingham City Council)
And the council's own caveat. Other websites that provide distance measuring facilities do not measure home to school distances as defined by us, so will produce different measurements. (Birmingham City Council)
This tool measures straight-line distance from the postcode's Ordnance Survey eastings/northings (postcodes.io, ONS Postcode Directory centroid) to the school's postcode centroid. Warwickshire's own method measures from the OS address-point coordinate of the individual home address to a predetermined school centroid, so this tool's figures are approximations and will differ from the council's. (the measuring method a school publishes)
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What could not be checked
A rules page is only as honest as its holes. The ones below affected more than one school, or changed what this page can say, and beneath them is every document that could not be reached at a single school. Each school’s card carries its own list under What could not be checked for this school, and none of them are summarised away here.
- Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls. The school's own September 2027 arrangements return HTTP 403 to every client the research tried, and the school policies index returns HTTP 404. The 2027 criteria and measuring point were read from an archived copy of the document instead of from the school's live one, and the rules shown here are the 2025 determined arrangements the council published. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- King Edward VI Five Ways School. The school publishes its September 2027 policy only inside a Publitas viewer, and the file behind the viewer is still named "proposed". The ward list and the criteria here were read through that viewer rather than from a policy document the school serves directly. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys. The school serves its 2027 policy from a SharePoint guest link that returns a web page rather than the document. The policy here was read from the King Edward VI Foundation's own copy of the same file, and the catchment map on the school site labels only part of the ward list. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- Queen Mary's High School. The document the school publishes for 2027 to 2028 entry is headed "Draft Admission arrangements", and so is the file for the year before it. No determined version was found on the school site or in the council's composite arrangements on the check date. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- Bishop Vesey's Grammar School. Two 2027 admissions policies are live on the school's own site and they do not agree. The version linked from the admissions page restricts the looked-after and pupil premium categories to Zone 1; the other version does not. Neither states a determination date. The zones and criteria here follow the version the admissions page links, and both documents are linked on the card. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- Across the region. Warwickshire County Council publishes qualifying scores, minimum waiting list scores, offers per category and the lowest score offered per category, and publishes no distance cut-off for any of its six schools. Nobody can say what the last distance offered was at Alcester, Ashlawn, King Edward VI School, Lawrence Sheriff, Rugby High or Stratford Girls' in any year. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- Newport Girls' High School. The Newport boundary area is published only as a map image on an Ordnance Survey base dated 2009. The determined policy defines it in no words, no radius, no parish list and no postcode list, so this tool cannot test a postcode against it and does not try. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- Haberdashers' Adams. The research file lists 36 designated primary schools; the cross-check note taken from the school's own copy of the policy counts 37, each with a Department for Education number. The list here is the research file's, and the school's own document is the one to read before relying on it. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- Across the region. Ward names change and are spelled differently in different documents. The King Edward VI policies write "St Paul's" in one school's list and "St Pauls" in another's, and postcodes.io returns the name the Office for National Statistics holds. A ward comparison on this page is a comparison of names, not a check against the school's published map. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- Across the region. None of these nineteen schools publishes coordinates for its measuring point, and two Warwickshire circles are centred on a fountain and a water tower rather than on an address. Pathway Eleven chose a postcode for each of those two landmarks and used its centroid. That choice is ours, not the schools'. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
- Across the region. The Warwickshire research recorded sixty-five further caveats about the six county schools without recording a public document for any of them. Every line on this page has to carry the document it was read from, so those caveats are held back rather than asserted, and each Warwickshire card carries the county-wide statements from the council's own leaflet and guidance instead. Checked on the page named here, 8 September 2026.
And what could not be reached at one school only
- Queen Mary's High School.
- The school's Admissions Arrangements page serves its content only after a session cookie is set; the file it links for 2027-2028 is headed 'Draft Admission arrangements'. No determined version was found on the school site on the fetch date. (the page that was checked)
- Wolverhampton Girls' High School.
- The school publishes cut-off scores only on the current entry-year page (September 2026 entry). The Year 7 2027 page carries no scores, and no archive of prior years was found on the school site. (the page that was checked)
- SharePoint returned 'Sorry, you cannot access this document.' The direct paths .../Shared Documents/School Policies/Admission Arrangements/Admission Arrangements 2026.pdf and .../2027.pdf both returned a Microsoft sign-in page. The 2027-2028 arrangements were obtained instead from the school's own site at https://www.wghs.org.uk/_files/ugd/0411cc_2443b2de35154dc3800d80a599a738df.pdf (the page that was checked)
- The council's 2027-2028 arrangements cover community and voluntary controlled schools only and do not mention Wolverhampton Girls' High School. The council states that foundation, voluntary aided, free school and academy arrangements are on the school's own website. (the page that was checked)
- King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys.
- The school's own site serves its 2027 policy from a SharePoint guest link that will not return the file to a non-browser client (HTML returned, not PDF). The identical policy was read from the Foundation's copy instead. (the page that was checked)
- Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls.
- The school's own 'Admission Arrangements for September 2027' PDF is served from an nginx endpoint that returns 403 Forbidden to every client we tried (browser user-agent, referer, full navigation headers, http/1.1, and WebFetch). Its criteria, pupil premium cap and measuring point could not be confirmed for 2027. (the page that was checked)
- School policies index page returns 404 at the path linked from site navigation, so no alternative on-site copy of the 2027 arrangements was found. (the page that was checked)
- Alcester Grammar School.
- The school's Admissions Arrangements page is headed 'Admission Arrangements - 2026 Entry' while linking a determined 2027/28 policy PDF; the page heading was not updated. The 2027/28 PDF itself was used. (the page that was checked)
- School contact page returns no address in server-rendered HTML; postal address taken from GOV.UK Get Information About Schools instead. (the page that was checked)
- Ashlawn School.
- The school's own copy of the 2027-2028 policy was not fetched. The identical policy was read from the trust's site at tlet.org.uk, which the school's admissions pages link to. (the page that was checked)
- King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon.
- Warwickshire's directory record for KES lists only 2024/25, 2025/26 and 2026/27 arrangements; the determined 2027 policy was taken from the school's own admissions page. (the page that was checked)
- Lawrence Sheriff School.
- School admissions page URL returned HTTP 404; the determined 2027/28 arrangements were taken from Warwickshire County Council's directory record for the school (https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/directory-record/6610/lawrence-sheriff-school). (the page that was checked)
- Stratford Girls' Grammar School.
- The school's site map and directions page returned HTTP 404. The postal address here was read from the school's own Contact Us page instead. (the page that was checked)
Cite this page, or put one school on your own site
This page is free to use and free to quote. If you are a school, a journalist or a parent group, the citation below is the one we would use ourselves.
Suggested citation. Pathway Eleven, Which grammar schools can my child apply to, from my postcode, updated 8 September 2026, https://pathwayeleven.co.uk/which-grammar-schools-can-my-child-apply-to/. Rules transcribed from the schools’ and councils’ own published arrangements, each named on the page.
Licence. The compiled rules on this page are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Reuse them for any purpose with attribution to Pathway Eleven and to the school or council named against each rule. The admission arrangements themselves are published by the schools and councils and are not Pathway Eleven's to license. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Every school on this page has its own link. Add the school’s own anchor to the address, as in /which-grammar-schools-can-my-child-apply-to/#alcester-grammar-school, and a reader lands on that school’s card rather than at the top of the page. The # beside each school heading is that link, the row in the table above links to the same place, and the identifiers are the same ones the JSON file uses.
A postcode is shareable in the same way: /which-grammar-schools-can-my-child-apply-to/?postcode=B15+2TT opens the page and runs the check.
To put one school on your own page, paste the block below. It is plain HTML with no script and no tracking of any kind, so it works on any site and it cannot see your visitors.
<table>
<caption>Bishop Vesey's Grammar School: the published admission zones</caption>
<tr><th>Zone</th><th>Where it reaches</th></tr>
<tr><td>Zone 1</td><td>within 12 miles from The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School</td></tr>
<tr><td>Zone 2</td><td>12 to 20 miles from The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School</td></tr>
<tr><td>Zone 3</td><td>20 to any distance from The foot of the steps leading to the main school entrance, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School</td></tr>
</table>
<p>Source: Bishop Vesey's Grammar School admissions policy, collected by
<a href="https://pathwayeleven.co.uk/which-grammar-schools-can-my-child-apply-to/#bishop-veseys-grammar-school">Pathway Eleven</a>. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).</p>Three things about that link, so nobody has to guess. It is the brand name, not a keyword. It is one link, visible to a reader, and there is no second one hidden anywhere in the block. And if your site’s policy is to qualify outbound links, add rel="nofollow" to it: the block is yours to use either way, and nothing on this page is conditional on the link being followed.
Prefer the raw rules? Everything behind this page, including the source document, the check date and the locator for every rule, is served as JSON at /data/west-midlands-grammar-school-distance-rules.json.
Changelog
As of .
- : First publication. Nineteen schools across the three consortium groups, with each school's catchment or priority area, the part distance plays in its admissions, its published criteria and its latest published cut-offs, every rule carrying the document it was read from.
This page is checked and refreshed each March, when the next year’s determined arrangements are published, and each October, when cut-offs are issued. Each refresh adds a line here and moves the as of date.
What was read, and when
Each document below was read in full on 8 September 2026, and every rule on this page is transcribed from one of them rather than from any summary of it. Each rule also carries a link to the school’s or the council’s own document, on the same line as the rule.
- the Birmingham rules research, Pathway Eleven, read 8 September 2026. Compiled in this repository on 8 September 2026 from each school's own determined admissions policy and from the King Edward VI Foundation results and offers page. Every field carries the URL it was read from and the time it was read.
- the Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall rules research, Pathway Eleven, read 8 September 2026. Compiled in this repository on 8 September 2026 from each school's own determined arrangements and, where a school's own copy was unreachable, from the local authority's published mirror. Every field carries the URL it was read from and the time it was read.
- the Warwickshire rules research, Pathway Eleven, read 8 September 2026. Compiled in this repository on 8 September 2026 from each school's own determined arrangements, from Warwickshire County Council's offer-day leaflets, and from Birmingham City Council's published distance method. Every field carries the URL it was read from and the time it was read.
- the King Edward VI cross-check note, Pathway Eleven, read 8 September 2026. A second, independent read of the same documents, kept as a cross-check. Where it disagrees with the Birmingham rules research, the research file is used and the disagreement is printed on the page. Cross-check only. No rule on the page is taken from this note.
- the Shropshire cross-check note, Pathway Eleven, read 8 September 2026. A second, independent read of the same documents, kept as a cross-check. Its count of the designated primary schools at Haberdashers' Adams differs from the research file's, and that disagreement is printed on the page. Cross-check only. No rule on the page is taken from this note.
- the Sutton Coldfield cross-check note, Pathway Eleven, read 8 September 2026. A second, independent read of the same documents, kept as a cross-check. It records the two conflicting Bishop Vesey's policies and the archived copy the Sutton Coldfield Girls arrangements were read from. Cross-check only. No rule on the page is taken from this note.
- the Warwickshire cross-check note, Pathway Eleven, read 8 September 2026. A second, independent read of the same documents, kept as a cross-check. It records that no Warwickshire school publishes coordinates for its centroid and that no distance cut-off is published anywhere in the county. Cross-check only. No rule on the page is taken from this note.
- the postcodes.io coordinate capture, postcodes.io, read 8 September 2026. Fetched once from postcodes.io and stored, so that no coordinate is looked up while a parent is reading the page. Written by scripts/build-postcode-tool-data.mjs on the run that first fetched it. Contains Ordnance Survey data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2025, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2025, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2025, and NRS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2025.
Common questions about catchment areas and distance
Does living close to a West Midlands grammar school get my child in?+
No. Every one of the nineteen schools ranks applicants by test score first. Distance either decides which admissions category a child falls into, or separates two children on the same score inside a category. At two of the schools, Queen Mary's Grammar School and Queen Mary's High School, it does not enter Year 7 admissions at all. This page says which of those applies at each school, in the school's own words.
Which West Midlands grammar schools have a catchment area?+
The eight Birmingham schools split three ways: six King Edward VI schools use lists of electoral wards, Bishop Vesey's uses three zones measured in miles, and Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls has no residence requirement at all. The six Warwickshire schools use priority circles, two of them drawn from a fountain in Stratford-upon-Avon and a water tower in Rugby rather than from the school. Newport Girls' High School publishes a drawn boundary and no list. Haberdashers' Adams uses a list of primary schools. Queen Mary's Grammar School, Queen Mary's High School and Wolverhampton Girls' High School publish no area.
Is the distance this page shows the distance the council will use?+
No. This page measures from the centre of your postcode to the centre of the school's postcode. A council measures from the Ordnance Survey address point of your individual home to a point the school has chosen, such as its front gates or the foot of its entrance steps. Birmingham City Council says in as many words that other websites measuring distance will produce different measurements. Treat a borderline result here as a reason to ask the admissions team, not as an answer.
Does this page store my postcode?+
No. The postcode is sent to postcodes.io when you press the button, so that it can return the Ordnance Survey coordinates for it, and it goes nowhere else. It is not stored in the page, it is not sent to Pathway Eleven, and no analytics event on this page carries it.
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