Haberdashers' Adams
Newport, TF10 7BD
· Telford and Wrekin grammar school
Ofsted: Good
Mixed
Test board
Consortium: Shropshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton (SWW) Grammar Schools Consortium. SWW consortium: two 60-minute papers covering English, Maths, VR and NVR
Ofsted judgement breakdown (2022-05-10)
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Good
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision (where applicable)
Good
Oversubscription criteria
- Looked after — Looked After/Previously Looked After Children
- Pupil premium — Pupil Premium/Service Premium children, qualifying score no more than 5% below the general qualifying score
- Feeder schools — Children on roll at one of 35 named designated primary schools (Newport/TF10 area and wider Telford & Wrekin), by rank order if oversubscribed
- Score rank — Remaining places by rank order of entrance-test score
What the entrance test covers
Both Telford and Wrekin grammar schools (Haberdashers' Adams and Newport Girls' High School) use the West Midlands Grammar Schools Entrance Test — the same shared GL Assessment test as the Birmingham and Walsall grammars:
Two multiple-choice papers of about 50 minutes each (answers on separate electronically-marked sheets), covering English comprehension, verbal reasoning, mathematics, and non-verbal/spatial reasoning. Published weighting: 50% English/verbal reasoning, 25% non-verbal reasoning, 25% mathematics. Scores are age-standardised.
One registration (early May to late June of Year 5) and one sitting (mid-September of Year 6, historically a Monday) covers every West Midlands consortium school named; each school then sets its own qualifying/priority thresholds.
University destinations
Of the 149-student 2019/20 leaver cohort, sustaining a
higher-education destination the following year. This is the last cohort the Department for Education published
with an Oxbridge/Russell Group breakdown — these categories were discontinued as official accountability
measures after this release, so a more recent figure does not exist.
Feeder / linked schools
- Wrockwardine Wood CE Junior (Criterion 3 designated)
- Wrekin View Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Wombridge Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Windmill Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Tibberton CE Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Teagues Bridge Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Short Wood Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- St. Peter & St. Paul Catholic Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- St. Peter's CofE Primary School (Criterion 3 designated)
- St. Peters, Bratton (Criterion 3 designated)
- St. Patrick's Catholic Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- St. Luke's Catholic Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- St. George's Church of England Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Randlay Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Old Park Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Newport CE Juniors School (Criterion 3 designated)
- Newdale Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Muxton Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Moorfield Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
- Millbrook Primary (Criterion 3 designated)
Data sourced from GIAS, Ofsted and official Telford and Wrekin admissions publications.
Figures can change year to year — always confirm with the school before applying.
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