Year 7 September 2026 entry

Key Dates

11+ test registration opens for September 2026 entry: Tuesday 6th May 2025

Queen Mary’s High School Open Evening: Tuesday 24th June 2025, 5pm – 7pm

11+ deadline for reasonable adjustments for September 2026 entry: Friday 13th June 2025, 4pm

11+ test registration closes for September 2026 entry: Friday 27th June 2025, 4pm

11+ test at Queen Mary’s High School: Saturday 13th September 2025

11+ results to be issued to parents/carers no later than Friday 17th October 2025

LA preference form deadline: Friday 31st October 2025

West Midland Grammar Schools and the 11+ Entrance Test for 2026 Entry

The test provider for 2026 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, 27th June 2025) will not be considered until after the first round of school offers have been made in March 2026. 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

The West Midlands Grammar Schools’ partnership using an age-weighted standardisation around a median score of 200.

The table below shows highest/lowest scores in the test for the last five years, as well as the “lowest score allocated a place”, which tells you the score of the last pupil offered a place on national offer day in March. Where possible, all scores below have been expressed as standardised to both 300 (the previous scoring system used for 2023 entry and before) and to 200 (the new scoring system since 2024 entry). Please note that examples of age standardisation to 200 have been provided for previous years data, but this is approximate.

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)	Unknown until March 2025	Unknown until March 2025
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

For 2025 entry, the Minimum Qualifying Score was confirmed by the Local Governing Body in November 2024 at 198. For 2026 entry, this is likely to remain the same but is subject to Governor approval in November 2025. The cut-off score will be unknown until March 2026. These scores will be updated on this page as soon as is appropriate to do so.

Parents/carers can decide whether or not to include any of the Grammar Schools in Birmingham, Shropshire, Walsall, Warwickshire or Wolverhampton on their home Local Authority preference form, which is due for submission by 31st October 2025. All child’s results letters will be issued ahead of the Local Authority preferences deadline and will provide an indication on whether or not your child would be considered for a place with us, should you choose to apply. For Queen Mary’s High School, if your child does not achieve the minimum qualifying score or above in the test, they will not be considered for a place and we would advise you not to list the school on your child’s preference form.

The scores for each section are standardised to take into account differences in age, meaning younger children are not disadvantaged compared to children in the same cohort who could be almost a year older.

Late Test for September 2026 Entry

Late applications are those where a candidate has not been registered with the school by 4pm on 27th June 2025. 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 include us on the original form in October 2025. Please refer to the published Admission Arrangements for further explanation.

Enquiries received after 1st February 2026

If you have missed the deadline for both the main and late tests for entry into Year 7 in September 2026, but are still interested in a place with us, please see our Mid-Year Admissions page for more information.

❗️Important Information❗️

When you apply to register your child to sit the Entrance Test, your child will be allocated a test centre that is closest to their home address. You are not able to select a test centre of your choice, and should you state a different post code than the home post code at the start of the process, please be aware your registration form will be rejected, and you will be instructed to re-apply using the correct postcode.

In the registration form for your child to sit the Entrance Test, you will be given the following information:

Please select from the list below the schools that you would like your child to be considered for.
This is separate from the Local Authority preferences process, which has a separate deadline of the 31st October 2025.
You must choose from the list below which schools you wish your child’s test results to be shared with. This may be different from the school at which they sat the Entrance Test.
We cannot share data with schools if they are not selected at this point.
It will not be possible to change your selections once this application to sit the Entrance Test is submitted. 

If you do not select a particular school then that school will not be able to consider your application at all, even if you later list the school on your preferences form.