Apply to Our Sixth Form Community
Apply to Our Sixth Form Community
If you wish to join our warm and welcoming Sixth Form community in September 2026, please follow the link above to begin your application.
Our Sixth Form Open Evening will take place on Thursday 16th October 2025 for students who wish to join our community in September 2026. Once registered via the link above, you will be able to book the sessions you wish to attend at the Open Evening via the Taster Day section of your account. We would recommend you choose one of the Sixth Form Director’s talks and then build your subject talks around this.
The timeline for applications to the Sixth Form is as follows:
September
Registration via the above link and selection of sessions for Open Evening.
October
Thursday 16th October – Sixth Form Open Evening, 6.00pm – 8.30pm.
November
Prospective applicants to the Sixth Form for September 2026 should complete the details on their Application Form via their Applicaa account.
February
Friday 13th February – we ask that Applications are completed by this date so that Option Blocks for September 2026 can be built to satisfy the greatest number of applicant choices. An application received after this date will still be considered, but choices will not be included in determining the Option Blocks.
March
Applicants will receive a Conditional Offer via Applicaa. This is not a guarantee of a place; where more applications than places are received, our oversubscription criteria will be applied. More information regarding the oversubscription criteria can be found by clicking on the accordion below.
Oversubscription Criteria
Where eligible applications for admission exceed the number of places in the Sixth Form, or the number of applications for a course exceeds the places available on that course, the following criteria will apply:
1. A ‘looked after child’ or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, residence, or special guardianship order (Under the terms of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (see section 46 (adoption orders)).
2. Those highest in rank order based on their Attainment 8 score.
3. In the event of tied scores resulting in more than one applicant being eligible for places then the applicant living nearest to the school as measured using the property co-ordinates provided through a combination of the Trafford Local Land and Property Gazetteer (BS7666), other LA data and Royal Mail Postal Address Information. In the case of a child living in a block of flats, the distance will be measured from the communal entrance of the building.
4. Random allocation will be used as a tie-break to decide who has the highest priority for admission where the qualifying score and the distance between two applicants’ home and the school is the same.
June
Applicants from other institutions will be invited to attend a Welcome Morning at school to provide an opportunity to familiarise themselves with the routines of the school and to meet the Sixth Form Team.
August
On GCSE Results Day, internal applicants will enrol in person after they collect their results. Applicants from other institutions can update their GCSE results on their application form and upload proof of their Results Statement issued by their current school. External applicants will be notified at the earliest opportunity if they have been successful. If courses are oversubscribed, candidates will be placed on a waiting list and will be contacted in due course.
Thank you for expressing an interest in joining our successful and inclusive Sixth Form. We hope to welcome you into our community in the near future and wish you every success in your forthcoming examinations.
With our very best wishes
Stretford Grammar School Sixth Form Team.