Sutton Grammar School complies with the co-ordinated admissions arrangements administered by the London Borough of Sutton. 135 boys are admitted into Year 7 having gained a place through the entrance tests and placed Sutton Grammar School on their Common Application Form. Please note that, due to over-subscription, meeting the required standard at our entrance tests does not guarantee the offer of a place at the school.
Please refer to the admissions policy and admissions procedures for our entrance criteria and other relevant information.
If you would like to be notified if we do get a vacancy in your son's year group, then you will need to complete a mid-term admission application which you can do by contacting the school admissions department at the London Borough of Sutton. A link to the LBS website can be found on the Other Admissions page.
In the event that a vacancy arises children on the waiting list for the relevant year group are invited in for testing. The child who performs the best, and who must also be of selective ability, is offered the place.
We welcome applications from external candidates to our Sixth Form. Please see our Sixth Form Admissions page and admissions policy for the criteria relating to sixth form entry.
If you have any admissions queries that are not covered on these pages then please contact the Admissions Officer who will be happy to help you.
At Sixth-Form level, all students must meet a minimum level of overall success at GCSE. Entry is based on competitive grades, and priority is always given to boys already at the school. For new admissions to the school, places will be determined by the rank order of examination results and are subject to the availability of places on individual subject courses.
We will be offering a minimum of 25 places to external students, and regularly take over 40. External places are open to both boys and girls on an equal basis.
We are pleased that since we opened up our sixth form to female students we have admitted equal numbers of new boys and new girls, and have over 40 female students in the Sixth Form.
Occasionally we have vacancies outside the normal points of admission, which are the beginning of Year 7, and the Sixth Form. Such vacancies are rare and we cannot predict when they might occur.
If you are interested in applying for one of these occasional vacancies for your son, you must complete a London Borough of Sutton mid-term application form, irrespective of where you live. You do not apply directly to the school.
The LBS mid-term application form can be downloaded here. Mid term application form.
If you are currently overseas but planning to move to Sutton in the near future, please read this advice published by the School Admissions team at the London Borough of Sutton
Applying for school places in Sutton from Overseas
We will be informed that you have made an application to the school and, in the vast majority of cases, we will respond by indicating that we have no vacancies and will not be able to admit your son to the school. His name will then be kept on a waiting list for the remainder of the academic year in which you have applied. The onus is on you to let us know at the end of that academic year if you wish your son’s name to remain on the waiting list.
In the event that there is a vacancy, all parents with boys on the waiting list will be contacted to see if they are still interested in pursuing their application. Candidates will be invited in for testing and the place will then be offered to the best performing boy of selective ability. For ad hoc vacancies of this sort, candidates are typically tested in English, science, mathematics, and a modern foreign language, at the appropriate level for the age of the candidates.
We do not test boys on the waiting list unless there is a vacancy. Parents/guardians have a statutory right of appeal if a place is not offered.
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