Ashlawn School 11+ admissions

Address

Ashlawn Road, Rugby, West Midlands, CV22 5ET

Year 7 admission

Mixed Year 7 admission

School type

Partially selective state school

Funding

State-funded

Day or boarding

Day school

Religion or denomination

GIAS records no applicable religious character.

Published admission number

256

September 2027 entry

Academically selected places

31

September 2027 entry; up to 31 places under the academic-ability criterion

Preferences per offer

The current DfE applications and offers release has not yet been joined to this record.

Assessment provider

GL Assessment

GL Assessment is verified for the linked assessment route. GIAS does not publish the current assessment provider.

• West Midlands Grammar Schools Entrance TestShared test group

  Provider

  GL Assessment

  Delivery

  Two paper-based multiple-choice papers, each approximately 50 to 60 minutes including instructions and examples, with individually timed sections and separate answer sheets

  Scores are age-standardised and weighted 50 per cent for English and verbal reasoning, 25 per cent for non-verbal reasoning and 25 per cent for mathematics. There is no single route-wide offer threshold: each partner school applies its own qualifying scores and oversubscription rules. September 2027 school thresholds are not yet published, and sitting or passing the shared test does not guarantee an offer.

  Official registration page

Eligibility

Ashlawn is a bilateral school. Its academic route uses the shared West Midlands Grammar Schools Entrance Test. Up to 31 Year 7 places are selected by academic ability, separately from up to 25 modern-language aptitude places and the non-selective intake. Warwickshire states that date of birth is the only condition for sitting the shared test, but an offer depends on Ashlawn's published academic criteria and the home local-authority application.

Score policy

The Committee of Reference sets the automatic qualifying score and the waiting-list minimum after the test, taking account of the cohort, applications and available places. Applicants are ranked under the policy's geographic and pupil-premium categories. The September 2027 scores are not yet published, so no historic threshold is reused and a test score alone does not guarantee an offer.

Oversubscription

After an education, health and care plan naming the school and looked-after or previously looked-after children, the academic route provides up to 15 places for the Eastern Area and up to 16 places within the 10.004-mile priority circle around Rugby Water Tower. Pupil-premium applicants have first priority within each academic allocation. Eastern Area applicants must meet the automatic qualifying score. The priority-circle allocation then considers other applicants meeting that score and, if needed, the Committee of Reference minimum standard. Unused academic places can pass outside the priority circle by automatic qualifying score; if too few children qualify, unfilled places convert to the non-selective intake.

Registration

GIAS does not publish the current test registration URL.

These subjects are verified for the linked shared assessment route. GIAS does not publish the current assessed subjects.

• English comprehension
• Verbal reasoning
• Mathematics
• Non-verbal reasoning
• Spatial reasoning

These stages are verified for the linked shared assessment route. GIAS does not publish the current assessment stages.

1. 1. Shared entrance test

   Applicants sit both papers in one shared route. The papers contain individually timed sections covering English comprehension, verbal reasoning, mathematics, non-verbal reasoning and spatial reasoning. Each partner school then applies its own published admissions criteria.

Registration opens

GIAS does not publish the current registration opening date.

Registration deadline

GIAS does not publish the current registration deadline.

Test date

GIAS does not publish the current test dates.

CAF deadline

GIAS does not publish the current CAF deadline.

National Offer Day

GIAS does not publish the current offer date.

Fee per term

This is a state-funded school.

Fee per year

This is a state-funded school.

Published fee context

This is a state-funded school.

Inspectorate

OFSTED

Framework

Graded areas without an overall judgement

Overall judgement

No current overall judgement

This inspection graded individual areas but did not assign an overall effectiveness grade.

Inspection date

3 June 2025

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1. Ashlawn School admissions policy 2027-2028

   Ashlawn School. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

2. Ashlawn School inspection report

   Ofsted. Accessed 26 August 2026. Inspection on 3 and 4 June 2025; individual areas were graded without an overall effectiveness judgement.

3. Birmingham grammar-school admissions timetable for 2027 entry

   King Edward VI Foundation. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

4. Open state-funded school fields CSV

   Department for Education. Accessed 25 August 2026. GIAS register snapshot on 25 August 2026.

5. Newport Girls' High School entrance-test timetable for 2027 entry

   Newport Girls' High School. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

6. ONS Postcode Directory May 2026 school-postcode centroid extract

   Office for National Statistics. Accessed 25 August 2026. ONS Postcode Directory, May 2026.

7. Shropshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton test timetable and score-sharing guidance for 2027 entry

   Queen Mary's Grammar School. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

8. Grammar schools in Warwickshire

   Warwickshire County Council. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

9. Warwickshire 11+ test guidance

   Warwickshire County Council. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

10. Warwickshire 11+ registration timetable for 2027 entry

    Warwickshire County Council. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

11. West Midlands Grammar Schools entrance-test format

    West Midlands Grammar Schools. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

12. West Midlands Grammar Schools registration notice for 2027 entry

    West Midlands Grammar Schools. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

13. West Midlands Grammar Schools partner schools

    West Midlands Grammar Schools. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.