ADMISSIONS
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Test Registration opens – TBC
You can register online from this date.
West Midlands Grammar Schools

Deadline for Reasonable Adjustments to the Test – Friday 13th June 2025
This is the deadline for requesting reasonable adjustments are made to the entrance test to allow your child to access the paper, if for example they have a disability. Requests for adjustments must be submitted by this date along with all relevant evidence. Contact the Admissions office to request the relevant form.

Test Registration deadline – Wednesday 27th June 2025 at 4pm
If your form has been successfully submitted you will receive an automatic email immediately following submission. You will receive a second acknowledgement within 15 working days of receipt.

Registrations after this date will not be accepted and children will not be able to take the test.

Test information – Beginning of September 2025

In early September you will be sent information about the test and procedure for the day of the test. This will be posted to your home address. If you have not received this by 9 September, contact the Admissions office. Do not contact the office before 9 September.

Grammar Schools Entrance Test Date – Saturday 13th September 2025

Your child sits the entrance test on this date. It is likely that two sessions will be held (AM and PM). Your child will be allocated a session and you should therefore keep the whole of 17 September free from commitments.

Grammar Schools Test Results – by 17th October 2025 – Note this is not the offer of a place.

The entrance test results will be sent prior to you completing your Local Authority preference form

Local Authority Preference form deadline – 31st October 2025
All parents must complete a preference form in addition to registering your child for the test. These are distributed through primary schools or available through your home Local Authority (LA). The Grammar Schools in Birmingham does not issue LA preference forms. You are advised to wait for the entrance test results before applying for school places.

National School Offer Day – 3rd March 2025
Local Authorities will notify parents which School their child has been offered.

Open morning for Offer holders – 12th March 2025
Due to limited numbers this is a ticketed event. A link will be sent by the school follwoing the admission offer.