Schools in Walsall

Primary schools: Confirmed via direct fetch of the 2025-26 admission arrangements: catchment/designated areas are used, not purely distance-based. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Both Walsall grammar schools (Queen Mary's Grammar School and Queen Mary's High School) use the West Midlands Grammar Schools Entrance Test — the shared GL Assessment test also used by the Birmingham and Telford grammars: Two multiple-choice papers of about 50 minutes each (roughly an hour per session with administration), assessing verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning and English comprehension. Scores are age-standardised and each school sets its own qualifying and priority thresholds from the shared result. One registration (early May to late June of Year 5) and one sitting in mid-September of Year 6 covers every West Midlands consortium school you name.

Walsall's two grammar schools — Queen Mary's Grammar School (boys) and Queen Mary's High School (girls) — use the shared West Midlands Grammar Schools Entrance Test (the same single test as the Birmingham and Telford grammar schools). Register once via the West Midlands Grammar Schools portal (historically early May to late June of Year 5, 4pm deadline); one sitting covers every participating school. Children living outside Walsall can register and sit the test — the Queen Mary's schools draw from across the Black Country and Birmingham. Apply via your home LA's Common Application Form by 31 October, and check each school's oversubscription criteria for priority-area effects.