Queen Mary's Grammar School

Walsall, WS1 2PG · Walsall grammar school

Ofsted: Outstanding Boys
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 (2023-03-28)

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 — Looked After/Previously Looked After boys achieving the qualifying score, by rank order
  2. Pupil premium — Up to 30% of places (54 of PAN 180): Pupil Premium boys achieving the qualifying score — (B1) Walsall state-primary pupils first, then (B2) others, both by rank order
  3. Other qualified — Other boys achieving the qualifying score, by rank order, until PAN is reached

What the entrance test covers

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.

University destinations

Oxbridge
1%
Russell Group
51%
Top-third university
52%
Any degree
91%

Of the 199-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.

House prices nearby

Median price, Paddock ward (Year ending Mar 2023)
£325,000

Median price for the school's electoral ward, year ending March 2023 — a neighbourhood-level indicator, not the school's actual admissions catchment (catchments are often smaller than a ward or span parts of several).

Data sourced from GIAS, Ofsted and official Walsall admissions publications. Figures can change year to year — always confirm with the school before applying.

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