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England's grammar schools, compared honestly
Entrance test board, pass mark, catchment area, and superselective status for every one of England's 163 state grammar schools — sourced from DfE records and each school's own published admissions arrangements, sitting next to each other for the first time.
- 163
- schools indexed so far
- 163
- fully selective grammar schools in England
- 26
- confirmed superselective, indexed so far
- 8
- regions covered so far
Why this site exists
One format, all 163
Entrance test board, pass mark, catchment and superselective status, laid out identically for every school — so you can actually compare rather than piecing it together from 163 different admissions PDFs.
Sourced, not guessed
Every figure links to where it came from — the school’s own admissions arrangements, DfE records, or an Ofsted report. Where sources disagree, or we simply couldn’t confirm something, we say so rather than picking a plausible-looking number.
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Every school, at a glance
Full list & filters →Alcester Grammar School
Alcester, Warwickshire
Out-of-area applicants are only offered places 'if there are insufficient children of the required level of ability' living inside the priority circle first — geography gates access before raw score does.
Altrincham Grammar School for Boys
Altrincham, Greater Manchester
Shares its published qualifying score exactly with Trafford's reputedly least-selective grammar — but council data shows its real cutoff for out-of-area applicants runs well above that shared floor.
Altrincham Grammar School for Girls
Altrincham, Greater Manchester
Same 334/324 score as Altrincham Boys and Urmston, but its own catchment is a plain 8-mile radius rather than a defined postcode list.
Aylesbury Grammar School
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Was literally the same co-educational school as Aylesbury High until they split by gender in 1959 — the two still give each other's siblings admissions priority today.
Aylesbury High School
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
The standard Buckinghamshire 121 threshold, allocated by catchment and distance rather than a strict score-rank — not the county's most selective girls' grammar.
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
Rossendale, Lancashire
The current school has never been inspected by Ofsted — a widely-circulated 'Inadequate' rating found online belongs to a predecessor legal entity that closed in 2023, not the school as it exists today.
Barton Court Grammar School
Canterbury, Kent
Its November 2024 Ofsted visit issued no grades at all — a secondary aggregator's '+0.38 Progress 8 for 2025' is actually stale 2024 data, since real Progress 8 doesn't exist for 2025 at any school.
Beaconsfield High School
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire's test doesn't rank children at all — every grammar school in the county shares one flat pass/fail score, with catchment and distance deciding who actually gets a place.
Beths Grammar School
Bexley, Greater London
Score above the borough's annual 'top 180' cutoff and a family gets to choose which of Bexley's four grammar schools to attend — an allocation mechanism this project hasn't seen documented anywhere else.
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All guides →Are grammar schools worth it? What the evidence says
A balanced look at the research on grammar schools and social mobility — where studies agree, where they don't, and why the honest answer depends what question you're actually asking.
How to apply for a grammar school place
The general timeline for 11+ applications in England — registration, testing, results, the Common Application Form, National Offer Day, and appeals.
What does "superselective" mean?
There's no official definition of a superselective grammar school — here's how this site decides, and why the answer is genuinely unresolved for some schools.
What is the 11+?
A plain explanation of England's grammar school entrance test — who sets it, what it covers, and why it looks different depending on where you live.