London & Surrounding Areas's grammar schools
Every grammar school we have verified in London & Surrounding Areas: 19 in total.
Queen Elizabeth's School
Barnet
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Barnet Consortium: GL Assessment (English & Maths, multiple-choice)
St Michael's Catholic Grammar School
Barnet
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Barnet Consortium: GL Assessment (4 papers); also requires certificate of Catholic baptism and practice
The Henrietta Barnett School
Barnet
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Barnet Consortium: GL Assessment Round 1 (Verbal/Non-Verbal Reasoning + English), then school-set Round 2 (English & Maths) for top ~300
Beths Grammar School
Bexley
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Bexley Selection Test (borough-wide, two papers: verbal ability/comprehension and numerical/non-verbal reasoning)
Bexley Grammar School
Bexley
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Bexley Selection Test (borough-wide)
Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School
Bexley
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Bexley Selection Test (borough-wide)
Townley Grammar School
Bexley
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Bexley Selection Test (borough-wide)
Newstead Wood School
Bromley
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Own single-stage GL Assessment test (Verbal Reasoning & Non-Verbal Reasoning)
St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School
Bromley
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Own two-stage test: Stage 1 Selective Eligibility Test (English/Maths/VR/NVR, multiple-choice), Stage 2 school-set written English & Maths for top ~450
The Latymer School
Enfield
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GL Assessment Maths & Verbal Reasoning combined paper, plus a separate school-set English paper
The Tiffin Girls' School
Kingston upon Thames
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Own bespoke two-stage test (Stage 1 multiple-choice screening, Stage 2 written English & Maths)
Tiffin School
Kingston upon Thames
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Own bespoke two-stage test (Stage 1 multiple-choice screening, Stage 2 written English & Maths)
Ilford County High School
Redbridge
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Redbridge Consortium test (borough-administered; some sources describe a recent transition from GL Assessment to CEM — not independently confirmed for current entry year, flagged)
Woodford County High School
Redbridge
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Redbridge Consortium test (borough-administered, GL Assessment format per multiple sources)
Nonsuch High School for Girls
Sutton
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Sutton Selective Eligibility Test (SET) Stage 1, plus individual school Stage 2
Sutton Grammar School
Sutton
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Sutton Selective Eligibility Test (SET) Stage 1, plus individual school Stage 2
Wallington County Grammar School
Sutton
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Sutton Selective Eligibility Test (SET) Stage 1, plus individual school Stage 2
Wallington High School for Girls
Sutton
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Sutton Selective Eligibility Test (SET) Stage 1, plus individual school Stage 2
Wilson's School
Sutton
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Sutton Selective Eligibility Test (SET) Stage 1, plus individual school Stage 2
London & Surrounding Areas 11+ pass mark
In London & Surrounding Areas, 7 different entrance tests are used across the area, 0 with a published fixed cutoff and 7 decided by rank order alone.
Barnet Consortium 11+ (Queen Elizabeth's / Henrietta Barnett / St Michael's)
Verified 2026-07-20No fixed pass mark. Confirmed directly against The Henrietta Barnett School's own Admissions Policy for Entry in 2027-2028: candidates are placed in rank order after two rounds of testing, with no numeric score published anywhere in the policy — Round One narrows the field to the top 300 ranked applicants, who then sit Round Two, and final offers go by rank order alone. A third-party figure of "225" circulating for a different Barnet school (Queen Elizabeth's Boys) could not be verified against that school's own site and directly contradicts the "no fixed mark, set annually" caveat those same sources also state, so it is not recorded here.
Queen Elizabeth's School, The Henrietta Barnett School and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School share a Barnet-based two-round selection process (registration once covers consideration by the participating schools). Round One tests verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and English; scores are standardised, combined and ranked, and only the top-ranked applicants (300, per Henrietta Barnett's published policy) are invited to a Round Two test in English and maths. Final offers are made in rank order once both rounds are combined, with no published numeric target at any stage — a family only learns whether their daughter met "the required standard" (i.e. ranked highly enough), never a specific score to aim for in advance.
View the official sourceBexley Selection Test
Verified 2026-07-20No fixed pass mark. Confirmed directly on Bexley Council's own site: "the Council, in conjunction with the four Grammar Schools, determines the selective score" after the test is marked each year — it is not set or published in advance. For context (2025 entry, the most recent published figures): 5,866 children sat the test, 2,070 (about 35%) reached the "selective standard," and 800 grammar school places were available; the top 180 highest-scoring children are placed in a top priority group regardless of which grammar school they prefer. The average weighted, age-standardised score is 200, with roughly two-thirds of candidates scoring 170-230.
Four grammar schools — Beths Grammar School, Bexley Grammar School, Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, and Townley Grammar School — share the Bexley Selection Test (papers provided by Quest Assessments) covering verbal ability/English, numerical reasoning and non-verbal reasoning, weighted 50%/25%/25% and age-standardised. Only children who reach that year's selective standard are eligible to list a Bexley grammar school as a preference at all; oversubscribed schools then apply their own criteria (e.g. distance, siblings) among eligible applicants. Bexley Council explicitly does not retain raw scores and cannot respond to Freedom of Information or Subject Access Requests for them.
View the official sourceBromley (St Olave's / Newstead Wood)
Verified 2026-07-20Split within the borough. Newstead Wood School (girls) has a semi-fixed floor: its own Admissions Policy for 2027-28 entry states the required standard "will be a score of 210 marks unless this is not sufficient to meet the PAN of the School" (168 places), in which case the school adjusts the standard so enough girls qualify — so 210 is a real default, but not an unconditional fixed number. St Olave's Grammar School (boys) publishes no score at all: places go by rank order of "Combined Score" with the top 450 Stage One scorers invited to Stage Two, consistent across the school's own admissions pages, though this was not independently re-verified against St Olave's raw policy PDF in this pass (its site did not yield readable content via direct fetch).
Bromley's two grammar schools do not share one test or one mechanic. Newstead Wood School runs its own Selection Test (verbal and non-verbal reasoning), age-adjusts and ranks scores, and applies a required standard that starts at a specific number (210) each year by default, only moving if too few girls reach it to fill the school's Published Admission Number. St Olave's Grammar School instead runs a two-stage process (SET-style Stage One, then Stage Two English/maths for the highest-ranked candidates) with places decided purely by final rank order and no default number at all — rank, not proximity, decides who is offered a place, with a small number of places reserved for Pupil Premium-eligible boys.
View the official sourceKingston Consortium (Tiffin / Tiffin Girls)
Verified 2026-07-20No fixed pass mark. Confirmed directly against Tiffin School's own Admissions Policy for 2026-27 entry: places are allocated "in rank order of the Combined Score," with reserved-place categories defined relative to "the 450th ranked Combined Score of all applicants" rather than any absolute number. The Combined Score itself is a weighted, standardised blend of Stage One and Stage Two tests (ratio 2:3), 50% English / 50% maths.
Tiffin School (boys) and The Tiffin Girls' School share Kingston's two-stage 11+ process: a Stage One test standardises and age-weights results to shortlist candidates, who then sit a Stage Two test; the two stages are combined into one "Combined Score" and all offers are made in rank order of that score, both within a Priority Area (under 10km from the school) and beyond it. No score is published even on National Offer Day — only unsuccessful candidates are later told their result — so the standard needed is entirely relative to that year's cohort, not a published target.
View the official sourceLatymer School (Enfield)
Verified 2026-07-20No fixed pass mark — eligibility is a rank position, not a score. Confirmed directly against The Latymer School's own Admissions Policy: "In normal terms the top 700 applicants will be deemed selective" for the Inner Area category (top 900 for the outer/wider category), with adjustments possible year to year. Candidates are ranked by age-standardised maths and verbal reasoning score first; only those within the qualifying rank band then have their English paper marked (a second, re-standardised rank) before final selection.
The Latymer School in Edmonton is Enfield's sole grammar school and runs its own single-round, two-stage marking process: every applicant sits maths and verbal reasoning, is age-standardised and ranked, and only the highest-ranked group (around the top 700-900, not a fixed score) then has their English paper marked to produce the final ranking used for offers. Because eligibility is defined as a rank position rather than a score, the actual mark needed varies entirely with how the whole cohort performs each year — there is no number a family can aim for in advance.
View the official sourceRedbridge Consortium (Ilford County High / Woodford County High)
Verified 2026-07-20No fixed pass mark. Confirmed directly on Redbridge Council's own site and its published raw-score data for 2026 entry, which carries the explicit disclaimer: "This is not a ranked list; this is a list of scores only. Ranking is dependent on the oversubscription criteria." Third-party figures of "104" and "around 210" both circulate for this test but are contradicted by the real 2026-entry score data (actual total scores cluster in the 120s-130s), so neither figure is recorded here.
Ilford County High School (boys) and Woodford County High School (girls) share the Redbridge 11+ selection test — two GL Assessment papers (English/verbal reasoning and maths/non-verbal reasoning) — and Redbridge Council is unusually transparent in publishing the full, unranked list of every candidate's total score each year alongside registration statistics. However, the Council does not publish or set a qualifying number: how many places each school can offer, and therefore how far down the score list an offer reaches, depends entirely on each school's own oversubscription criteria (e.g. the common catchment area) applied after the fact.
View the official sourceSutton Selective Eligibility Test (SET)
Verified 2026-07-20No fixed pass mark. Confirmed directly against Sutton Grammar School's own FAQ: "It is not possible to state a pass mark in advance of the test. The pass mark will be decided by the participating schools after the test has been marked. Each School may determine its own pass mark." Pupils eligible for Pupil Premium may qualify at up to 20% below the standardised pass mark set for everyone else.
Sutton Grammar School, Nonsuch High School for Girls, Wallington County Grammar School, Wallington High School for Girls and Wilson's School share the Sutton Selective Eligibility Test (SET), a first-stage test weighted 2:2:3:3 across its four component papers and age-standardised. Only pupils who reach that year's (unpublished, per-school) pass mark for the SET go on to a second-stage Entrance Examination set individually by each of those five schools, and it is the second-stage result that ultimately decides offers. Because the SET pass mark is set after marking and can differ between the five schools depending on applicant numbers and places available, there is no single number that applies across Sutton, let alone one known in advance.
View the official sourceFrequently asked questions
How many grammar schools are in London & Surrounding Areas?
London & Surrounding Areas has 19 grammar schools in our directory: 8 boys', 8 girls' and 3 co-educational grammar schools.
What is the London & Surrounding Areas 11+ pass mark?
In London & Surrounding Areas, 7 different entrance tests are used across the area, 0 with a published fixed cutoff and 7 decided by rank order alone. See the full breakdown above for the exact sourced detail.
Is the 11+ test the same at every school in London & Surrounding Areas?
No, London & Surrounding Areas's grammar schools use 12 different admissions tests between them. Check each school's card above for the exact test it uses.
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