Wallington County Grammar School

Wallington, SM6 7PH · Sutton grammar school

Ofsted: Outstanding 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 (2017-01-17)

Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision (where applicable)
Outstanding

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
4%
Russell Group
57%
Top-third university
67%
Any degree
93%

Of the 168-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, Wallington North ward (Year ending Mar 2023)
£410,000

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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