Sutton Grammar School

Sutton, SM1 4AS · Sutton grammar school

Ofsted: Good Boys
Test board
Consortium: Sutton Selective Eligibility Test (SET) Consortium. Two-stage: Stage 1 SET (all 5 schools) → Stage 2 school-specific tests for girls (shared) and boys (shared). Test assesses Maths and English comprehension only

Ofsted judgement breakdown (2022-06-22)

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

  1. Looked after — Looked after children and previously looked after children
  2. Medical social — Children with exceptional medical/social needs
  3. Sibling — Siblings of children on roll at the school
  4. Other qualified — All other qualifying children (passed both Stage 1 SET and Stage 2) — tiebreaker: distance

What the entrance test covers

Sutton uses a TWO-STAGE selection system: Stage 1 — the Selective Eligibility Test (SET), shared by all five Sutton grammar schools: two papers of roughly 40-50 minutes (English and maths), content broadly based on the Key Stage 2 national curriculum. The SET does NOT test verbal or non-verbal reasoning. Sat in mid-September of Year 6; one sitting covers every participating school. Stage 2 — children who pass the SET are invited to a second-stage entrance exam at each school they're interested in, a few weeks later (the schools group their second-stage dates: historically Nonsuch and Wallington Girls on one Saturday; Wilson's, Wallington County and Sutton Grammar on another). Second-stage papers are NOT multiple-choice — written answers, still based on Key Stage 2 content but more demanding. Final selection uses the second-stage performance plus each school's own oversubscription criteria.

University destinations

Oxbridge
8%
Russell Group
69%
Top-third university
80%
Any degree
92%

Of the 143-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, Sutton Central ward (Year ending Mar 2023)
£350,000

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 Sutton admissions publications. Figures can change year to year — always confirm with the school before applying.

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