Birmingham & West Midlands's grammar schools
Every grammar school we have verified in Birmingham & West Midlands: 11 in total.
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
Birmingham
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Birmingham/King Edward VI Foundation Test (GL Assessment) — shares the Birmingham consortium test though not a King Edward VI Foundation school itself
King Edward VI Aston School
Birmingham
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Birmingham/King Edward VI Foundation Test (GL Assessment, 2 papers: English/Verbal Reasoning 50%, Non-Verbal Reasoning 25%, Maths 25%) — shared with the other 7 Birmingham consortium schools
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys
Birmingham
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Birmingham/King Edward VI Foundation Test (GL Assessment, 2 papers: English/Verbal Reasoning 50%, Non-Verbal Reasoning 25%, Maths 25%) — shared with the other 7 Birmingham consortium schools
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls
Birmingham
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Birmingham/King Edward VI Foundation Test (GL Assessment, 2 papers: English/Verbal Reasoning 50%, Non-Verbal Reasoning 25%, Maths 25%) — shared with the other 7 Birmingham consortium schools
King Edward VI Five Ways School
Birmingham
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Birmingham/King Edward VI Foundation Test (GL Assessment, 2 papers: English/Verbal Reasoning 50%, Non-Verbal Reasoning 25%, Maths 25%) — shared with the other 7 Birmingham consortium schools
King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys
Birmingham
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Birmingham/King Edward VI Foundation Test (GL Assessment, 2 papers: English/Verbal Reasoning 50%, Non-Verbal Reasoning 25%, Maths 25%) — shared with the other 7 Birmingham consortium schools
King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls
Birmingham
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Birmingham/King Edward VI Foundation Test (GL Assessment, 2 papers: English/Verbal Reasoning 50%, Non-Verbal Reasoning 25%, Maths 25%) — shared with the other 7 Birmingham consortium schools
Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls
Birmingham
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Birmingham/King Edward VI Foundation Test (GL Assessment) — shares the Birmingham consortium test though not a King Edward VI Foundation school itself
Queen Mary's Grammar School
Walsall
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Shropshire, Walsall & Wolverhampton (SWW) Consortium Test (GL Assessment) — a separate consortium from the Birmingham/KEVI Foundation test
Queen Mary's High School
Walsall
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Shropshire, Walsall & Wolverhampton (SWW) Consortium Test (GL Assessment) — a separate consortium from the Birmingham/KEVI Foundation test
Wolverhampton Girls' High School
Wolverhampton
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Shropshire, Walsall & Wolverhampton (SWW) Consortium Test (GL Assessment) — a separate consortium from the Birmingham/KEVI Foundation test
Birmingham & West Midlands 11+ pass mark
In Birmingham & West Midlands, the King Edward VI Foundation Test / West Midlands Grammar Schools Partnership uses a published qualifying standard (205–224).
King Edward VI Foundation Test / West Midlands Grammar Schools Partnership
Verified 2026-07-20For the 6 King Edward VI Foundation grammar schools plus Bishop Vesey's Grammar School and Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls: Qualifying Score 205, Priority Score 224 — both confirmed directly on the King Edward VI Foundation's own "Results and offers" page for 2026 entry. These are hard floors, not realistic targets: the Foundation's own published tables show each school's actual "last place offered" score running well above 205 (e.g. Bishop Vesey's 229 for 2026 entry, non-priority category), the same floor-vs-real-cutoff gap found in Essex's CSSE test. Queen Mary's Grammar School and Queen Mary's High School (Walsall) publish a different, lower Minimum Qualifying Score of 180 for 2026 entry (median around 200), confirmed directly on Queen Mary's Grammar School's own site — a genuinely separate floor, not the Birmingham figure restated. Wolverhampton Girls' High School's current figure could not be independently confirmed from a primary source in this pass (its site is JavaScript-rendered and did not yield readable content); third-party sources cluster it around 198-202, consistent with the Walsall-style scale rather than Birmingham's, but this specific number is left flagged as unconfirmed rather than guessed.
The 11 grammar schools confirmed in this area in our own Grammar Schools directory actually sit across two related but distinct testing arrangements, not one single county-wide test. The core group — King Edward VI Aston, Camp Hill School for Boys, Camp Hill School for Girls, Five Ways, Handsworth Grammar School for Boys and Handsworth School for Girls — are run directly by the King Edward VI Foundation, which also publishes results for two schools that are NOT part of the Foundation itself but use the same shared entrance test: Bishop Vesey's Grammar School and Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls. All eight sit one shared GL Assessment test (two papers covering English Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Mathematics and Non-Verbal/Spatial Reasoning, weighted 50% English/verbal reasoning, 25% non-verbal reasoning, 25% maths, and age-standardised) and share the same published Qualifying Score and higher Priority Score each year. Separately, a wider regional arrangement — the West Midlands Grammar Schools Partnership — links 19 grammar schools across Birmingham, Shropshire, Walsall, Warwickshire and Wolverhampton, sharing a similarly GL-provided, age-standardised test on a similar scale (median around 200) so that a child sitting the test in one area can have their score considered by schools in any of the others. However, each locality within that wider partnership still sets its own qualifying score rather than adopting Birmingham's: Walsall's Queen Mary's schools publish their own (lower) Minimum Qualifying Score each year. In both systems, reaching the qualifying score only makes a child eligible to be considered — oversubscribed schools still rank eligible children using their own published admissions criteria (e.g. Pupil Premium categories, catchment/priority area, distance) to decide actual offers.
View the official sourceFrequently asked questions
How many grammar schools are in Birmingham & West Midlands?
Birmingham & West Midlands has 11 grammar schools in our directory: 5 boys', 5 girls' and 1 co-educational grammar schools.
What is the Birmingham & West Midlands 11+ pass mark?
In Birmingham & West Midlands, the King Edward VI Foundation Test / West Midlands Grammar Schools Partnership uses a published qualifying standard (205–224). See the full breakdown above for the exact sourced detail.
Is the 11+ test the same at every school in Birmingham & West Midlands?
No, Birmingham & West Midlands's grammar schools use 3 different admissions tests between them. Check each school's card above for the exact test it uses.
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