Cavendish Road, Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 3NL                                                      

Single Sex - Girls Only

Marlborough Rd, Bowdon, Altrincham Cheshire WA14 2RS                                                     

Single Sex - Boys Only

Marsland Road, Sale.  Cheshire M33 3NH

Co-educational - girls and boys

Newton Road, Urmston, Manchester M41 5UG

Co-educational - girls and boys

Stretford Grammar School’s admission information is available on the school website and summarised below:

• Please apply to any of the five schools for your child to take the entrance test on Monday 15^th September 2025. You only need to complete one application form but you must state where you want your child to sit the examination and which schools you wish to share the results with.  We recommend you choose the closest school to your home address as your test centre even if it is not going to be a preference.  
• You must also complete your Local Authority’s Common Application Form which, in Trafford, must be returned to the Local Authority by 31^st October 2025. If you reside outside Trafford please check the return date for your own authority. You must ensure that you have named Stretford Grammar School as a preference on the Local Authority’s Common Application Form if you wish to be considered for Stretford Grammar School.
• Your child should have a date of birth between 1^st September 2014 and 31^st August 2015.
• To enter your child for the entrance test, please complete the online registration form which is available by clicking the link below from noon on Thursday 24th April 2025 to noon on Friday 20th June 2025 at the latest, but preferably well before this date.

On receipt of your application to sit the entrance exam we will send you a confirmation email. In the event our exam centre reaches its maximum capacity then ALL spaces will be reallocated by distance i.e. those living closest to the exam centre will be given priority so please consider this when choosing your test centre. Details of the examination day, an attendance slip and a Special Circumstances Form will be posted to you by Thursday 4th September 2025. Your child must bring the Attendance Form on the day of the test with a photograph attached. Please contact our Admissions Officer via admissions@stretfordgrammar.com if the information is not received by Tuesday 9th September 2025.   If your child does not have the correct Attendance Form and photo ID on the day of the test, they will not be allowed to sit the examination.  

• If there are any exceptional circumstances and your child is unable to sit the entrance exam on Monday 15^th September 2025, please let us know when you apply and we will try to make alternative arrangements.
• If your child is ill immediately prior to, or on the day of the examination, please do not bring them. Please contact our Admissions Officer by Thursday 18th September 2025 and alternative arrangements may be made.
• If you feel that there are any special circumstances that might affect your child’s performance on 15^th September 2025, it is important that you let us know on the Special Circumstances Form which will be included in the information posted by Thursday 4th September 2025.

THE ENTRANCE EXAM

• The entrance exam consists of two examinations, each approximately one hour in length, containing questions that assess verbal, non-verbal and mathematics skills. For each element there will be a range of different types of questions. Questions that test verbal ability skills may include questions relating to word choice, knowledge of words and their meanings and how words relate to each other; students may also be asked questions that relate to verbal comprehension skills. Questions that test non-verbal ability skills may include questions relating to relationships between shapes and sequences of shapes, identification of common features from a set of figures and applying them to a new figure, codes and spatial awareness questions. Questions that test mathematics skills generally cover content taught in schools up to the start of Year 6. The areas assessed typically include aspects of number, measurement, geometry and statistics. Some questions may involve using current mathematical skills to solve mathematic problems.
• No extra time will be allowed if your child needs to leave the examination for any reason. He/she will be allowed a short break between the two tests for a toilet visit and/or a drink.
• If your child does have to leave the room because of illness and subsequently goes home, if they have started one of the examination papers they cannot return on another date and finish that particular paper. We can only let your child sit the paper they have missed.  The Special Circumstances Form should be completed and returned in the week immediately following the examination and arrangements can be made for the missed paper to be taken on an alternative date.
• Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Sale Grammar School, Stretford Grammar School and Urmston Grammar are using the same entrance exam and consequently your child will only sit one exam.

EXAMINATION RESULTS

The examination results will be communicated to parents prior to 31st October 2025.  For your child to qualify for a place at Stretford Grammar School your child must gain a qualifying score of 334 and you must ensure that you have named Stretford Grammar School as a preference on the Local Authority’s Common Application Form.  For the qualifying criteria for other schools within the consortium, please go to the relevant website. This form must be returned to the Local Authority in which you reside.

Please be aware that achieving the qualifying score is not an offer of a place.

If parents/carers have elected (on the TGSC Registration Form) to share their child’s result with more than one school, a separate result will be given from each school.

Papers are marked electronically by computer and the two results are checked against each other. It is highly unlikely that an error could be made in the marking of the papers. Parents/Carers cannot request a remark of their child’s exam paper to ensure that all candidates are treated equally.

We would like to confirm the answer sheets are not held by the school and we do not carry out manual remarks.  We are fully confident in the reliability of the process and the accuracy of the scores provided by the service provider.

We only provide one standardised score.  A breakdown of the examination result will not be available.

As required under the National Co-ordinated Secondary Arrangements the list of qualifiers is then sent to the Local Authority, who will apply their allocation procedures to determine the offer of a place on national offer day, the 1^st March 2026.

Oversubscription Criteria

If the number of qualifying applicants is greater than the number of places available, then the places will be awarded as follows to qualifying applicants:

1. Looked After Children and all previously Looked After Children. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority, in the exercise of their social services functions (as defined in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989). Previously Looked After Children are children who were looked after but ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order
2.  Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a ‘special guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). Children who have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. A child is regarded as having been in state care in a place outside of England if they were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation or any other provider of care whose sole purpose is to benefit society.
3. Pupil Premium – 32 Places will be allocated to students on Pupil Premium, irrespective of distance. Candidates, on Pupil Premium, with equal scores to the lowest candidate in this allocation will also be offered places.  If fewer than 32 children eligible for the pupil premium achieve the test pass mark of 334, then pupils scoring more than 324 will be prioritised in order of test score until the 32 places are filled
4. The top 20 scoring candidates, irrespective of home residence, will be allocated a place. Candidates with equal scores to the lowest candidate in this allocation will also be offered places.
5. Children who will have a sibling attending the School within Years 7 to 11 at the time of admission (September 2025).
6. Successful candidates who live within the immediate area of the school; being M32, M33, M41, M17, M15 and M16 (both within Trafford and Manchester), and including M21, this being the next closest postcode to the school.
7. Children who live nearest to the School, measured in a direct straight line from the child’s permanent place of residence to the School.