Newport Girls' High School Academy

Newport, TF10 7HL · Telford and Wrekin grammar school

Ofsted: Outstanding Girls
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 (2022-11-01)

Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision (where applicable)
Outstanding

Oversubscription criteria

  1. Looked after — Stage 1: Looked After/Previously Looked After Children scoring ≥95% of the qualifying score
  2. Pupil premium feeder — Stage 2: Up to 15 places for Pupil Premium girls at a listed Telford & Wrekin primary school, scoring ≥95% of the qualifying score, ranked by score
  3. Boundary area — Stage 3: Girls within the publicised Newport boundary area achieving the qualifying score, ranked by score
  4. All other areas — Stage 4: All other girls (UK-wide or abroad) achieving the qualifying score, ranked by 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

Oxbridge
4%
Russell Group
50%
Top-third university
58%
Any degree
90%

Of the 72-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

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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