Sale Grammar School 11+ admissions

Address

Marsland Road, Sale, North West, M33 3NH

Year 7 admission

Mixed Year 7 admission

School type

Fully selective state school

Funding

State-funded

Day or boarding

Day school

Religion or denomination

GIAS records no applicable religious character.

Published admission number

190

September 2027 entry

Academically selected places

190

September 2027 entry

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.

• Trafford Grammar Schools 11 PlusFormal consortium

  Provider

  GL Assessment

  Delivery

  One shared in-person entrance test comprising two approximately one-hour, machine-marked multiple-choice papers

  Results are age-standardised and reported as one standardised score. The published minimum qualifying score for September 2027 is 334 at each of the five member schools; qualification is not an offer and each school applies its own admissions criteria.

  Official registration page

Eligibility

Applicants born 1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016 who attain the qualifying score in the age-standardised Trafford Grammar Schools Consortium entrance examination.

Score policy

The policy requires the consortium qualifying score and ranks eligible applicants by selection-test score where applicable; it does not publish a separate numeric 2027 threshold.

Oversubscription

EHCP-named applicants are admitted first; then looked-after and previously looked-after children; up to 15 Pupil Premium applicants; priority-area applicants; and applicants outside the priority area ranked by selection-test score, with distance tie-breaks.

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.

• Verbal reasoning
• Non-verbal reasoning
• Mathematics

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

1. 1. Trafford Grammar Schools Consortium entrance test

   A child registers once, sits the shared test at one allocated centre and can request that the result is shared with any of the five member schools.

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.

Inspection outcomes are maintained separately and are not present in current GIAS downloads.

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1. Open state-funded school fields CSV

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

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

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

3. Sale Grammar School Admissions Policy, Admission of Students in the Year Commencing September 2027

   Sale Grammar School. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

4. Admission of children to Year 7 for September 2027

   Stretford Grammar School. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

5. Frequently Asked Questions for Admission in 2027

   Stretford Grammar School. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.