Year 7 September 2025 entry
Key Dates
11+ test registration opens for September 2025 entry: Tuesday 7th May 2024
Queen Mary’s High School Open Evening: Tuesday 25th June 2024, 5pm – 7pm
11+ test registration closes for September 2025 entry: Friday 28th June 2024, 4pm
11+ test at Queen Mary’s High School: Saturday 14th September 2024
11+ results to be issued to parents/carers no later than 18th October 2024
LA preference form deadline: Thursday 31st October 2024
West Midland Grammar Schools and the 11+ Entrance Test for 2025 Entry
The test provider for 2025 entry is GL Assessment. In 2023, Queen Mary’s High School began a new partnership with other Midlands based selective schools, known as ‘West Midlands Grammar Schools’, which incorporates all Birmingham, Shropshire, Walsall, Warwickshire, and Wolverhampton grammar schools.
Sharing Data
The West Midlands Grammar Schools (WMGS) partnership provides an opportunity for schools to share candidate results amongst other partnership schools, if requested on a child’s application form. This means that if your child sits the entrance test in Walsall, they can be eligible to apply for any of the grammar schools in Birmingham, Shropshire, Warwickshire or Wolverhampton. If you intend to apply for multiple schools within the WMGS partnership, you must tick the relevant box on the test application form to consent to share your child’s details and entrance test result. Any request to share results after the registration closing date (4pm, 28th June 2024) will not be considered until after the first round of school offers have been made in March 2025. Please note that admission criteria to each school within the partnership will differ and we strongly recommend you check individual school websites for further details.
Aged Standardised Scoring
Year of entry
|
Number of pupils admitted
|
Lowest score in test (std to 300)
|
Lowest score in test (std to 200)
|
Highest score in test
(std to 300) |
Highest score in test
(std to 200) |
Lowest score allocated a place
(std to 300) |
Lowest score allocated a place
(std to 200) |
September 2025
|
150
|
180
(approx. for QMHS only) |
120
(QMHS only) |
408
(approx. for QMHS only) |
272
(QMHS only) |
319
(approx.) |
213
|
September 2024
|
150
|
196
(approx. for QMHS only) |
131
(QMHS only) |
418
(approx. for QMHS only) |
279
(QMHS only) |
324
(approx.) |
216
|
September 2023
|
150
|
195
|
N/A
|
413
|
274
(approx.) |
321
|
214 (approx.)
|
September 2022
|
150
|
144
|
N/A
|
404
|
269
(approx.) |
319
|
213 (approx.)
|
September 2021
|
150
|
192
|
N/A
|
400
|
267 (approx.)
|
317
|
211 (approx.)
|
Minimum Qualifying Scores and Cut-Off Scores
Late Test for September 2025 Entry
Late applications are those where a candidate has not been registered with the school by 4pm on 28th June 2024. All late candidates will be tested as per our published Admission Arrangements.
Once a late application to QMHS has been made, parents/carers will receive a ‘late applications form’ allowing you to state the reason for the late application. This will be considered by the Governors to determine if it is considered exceptional, or not. By definition, most reasons will not be exceptional. Candidates considered to have exceptional circumstances will be considered as having applied on-time, whereas candidates that are not deemed to have exceptional circumstances will be considered for a waiting list place only, once the first round of offers have been made.
Students who perform well in the late test will still have the opportunity to be allocated a place at the school from our waiting list, so we encourage you to apply and to amend your Local Authority CAF / preference form, should you not already have included us on the original form in October 2024. Please refer to the published Admission Arrangements for further explanation.
Late applications will close at 2pm on Friday 31st January 2025.
SEN Applications (applications with reasonable adjustments) will close at 4pm Friday 17th January.
APPLICATIONS FOR THE LATE TEST AT QMHS ARE NOW CLOSED
Enquiries received after 1st February 2025
If you have missed the deadline for both the main and late tests for entry into Year 7 in September 2025, but are still interested in a place with us, please see our Mid-Year Admissions page for more information.