Wallington County Grammar School

Admissions

Thank you for your interest in Wallington County Grammar School, a selective school for boys in Year 7 to Year 13; with female students being welcomed into the Sixth Form. In an attempt to become more environmentally friendly, we do not print a prospectus but have ensured all of the information you require can be found on this website. We would also encourage you to visit the school on our annual Open Evening to further enhance your knowledge. Please refer to the section entitled 'Open Evenings' for further information regarding our Transfer to Secondary School open evening held each July, and our Sixth Form open evening held each November.

There is also an online Virtual Tour of our premises available, which can be found in the 'About Us' section of this website.

Please ensure that you read the Schools Admissions Arrangements documents relevant to the year of academic entry for your child. This document will give you guidance on how places are offered and the different admissions bands we use for entry into Year 7.

We routinely accept students into Year 7 and Year 12. We also maintain non-ranked mid-term waiting list for years 7 to 11. Please refer to our Mid-Term Admissions section of this website for information on how to make a mid-term application.

If you have read all of the information supplied on this website and still have a question, please contact the Admissions Officer, by email: admissions@wcgs.org.uk who will endeavour to reply to your communication as soon as possible.

Familiarisation Tests (practice 11+ tests)

These are run by Wallington County Grammar School's PTFA - not directly by the school. If you have a query or wish to book a Familiarisation Test, please click on the tab entitled 'PTFA' from the home page of this website. Do not contact the Admissions Officer at the School.

Mid-Term Admissions

Making a mid-term application if you are overseas

Please click on the following link for information from the Local Authority in Sutton (updated June 2021) on making a mid-term application if you are overseas.

General information regarding mid-term applications & vacancies at Wallington County Grammar School

• The Local Authority co-ordinate mid-term admissions and so please complete their In Year Application Form (which can be accessed by clicking on the link above)
• Our school is normally full in all year groups and it is unlikely that any vacancies will arise, but if a vacancy does arise in your son's year group and his details are on a mid-term waiting list, he will be invited in to the school to sit an entrance test. Please note: an entrance test would only ever be organised if a vacancy were to arise.
• It is not therefore possible to tell parents what may be included in an entrance test, as a test paper is only created once a vacancy arises and a test is then planned.
• Waiting lists are held for all year groups to 7 to 11. If no vacancies arise during the year, near the end of the academic year you will be contacted via email and informed that all waiting lists will be cancelled at the end of the summer term. At this point you will be given the opportunity to transfer your son's details to the next year's waiting list from September.
• The only exception to this is with the Year 11 waiting list as when this is cancelled, all students may then make a separate application for a place in our Sixth Form.
• Please note that it is not possible for boys to sit an Entrance Examination twice for the same academic year of entry.
• Success in an Entrance Examination does not mean that a place will be offered to join our School as it is likely we will pass a few boys from an entrance test, but we may only have one vacancy in a year group.
• The school would apply our oversubscription criteria if a vacancy were to arise and a test held.
• A parent has the right of appeal if not offered a place at our school. An appeal would normally be lodged once a candidate is tested and is not subsequently offered a place. Please refer to the Admissions, Appeals section of this website for further information.

Entry Admissions Criteria and Arrangements

Please click on the links below to read the determined Admissions Criteria and Arrangements for 2024-2025 entry to Wallington County Grammar School.

If you wish to make an objection regarding our School's Admissions Arrangements for 2024-2025 entry, please contact the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) by copying and pasting the following address into your search bar on your device and completing the objection to school admission arrangements form.

Key Dates for Year 7 Entry

On 1st March (National Offer Day) you will receive notification from your home Local Authority whether or not you have been successful in being offered a place at Wallington County Grammar School.

If your son has been offered a place at our School: You will be emailed and asked to indicate whether you accept or decline the offer early in March from Wallington County Grammar School (WCGS). We ask that you always accept or decline any offer of a place with your Local Authority as well as informing the School.

• If you wish to decline the offer, please do let the school know of your decision by completing the Google form emailed to you, as well as informing the Local Authority.
• If you wish to accept the offer of a place, please complete the Google form and return it to the school. (If you are accepting your offer, at a later date you will be asked to provide the school with additional information about your son, eg. any medical conditions he may have, passport details, parental/carer contact details etc.).

Waiting List for Year 7

If your son was unsuccessful in being offered a placed at our school on National Offer Day in March 2023 but he reached the Wallington County Grammar School Selective Eligibility Test (SET) and Second Stage Test pass mark and you listed our school on your CAF as a higher preference than the school you have been offered by the Local Authority, then your son's details will automatically be placed on a ranked Year 7 waiting list at our school.

Waiting List positions

Year 7 waiting list positions will be emailed out to all parents/carers before the Easter break.

From National Offer Day on 1st March , all parents offered a place at our school will have a certain number of days in which to accept or decline their offer with their Local Authority. The Local Authority in Sutton will also then collate acceptances and declines from other Local Authorities in other boroughs, meaning that only after Easter in it may be likely that some additional offers for year 7 places will be made.

Please do not contact the School regularly to ask about revised waiting list positions as if your son reaches the top of this ranked waiting list and we have a vacancy we can offer him, the Admissions Officer will contact you to inform you of the vacancy that we can offer your son. The Admissions Officer will email out revised waiting list positions approximately every 2-3 months. Please be advised that this ranked waiting list for Year 7 entry will stay in operation until the end of the Autumn term in (it will only be cancelled at the earliest in December ).

Waiting list positions may go down as well as up (as some parents do occasionally wish to change their CAF preference priorities).

The amount of movement on the ranked year 7 waiting list can differ greatly each year, so it is very difficult to gauge whether your son is likely to be offered a place.

If your son's details are still on our ranked Year 7 waiting list after December but we have been unable to offer him a Year 7 place, the school will write to you to inform you when this ranked waiting list will be cancelled. At this time you will be given instruction on how to transfer your son's details to a non-ranked waiting list if you so wish, so if a future vacancy were to arise in your son's year group, he would be invited in to our school to sit a mid-term entrance test.

Appeals

If you have not been offered a place at Wallington County Grammar School and wish to appeal against this decision, please refer to the Appeals section of this website for further information. We ask that appeals be lodged within 20 School days from National Offer Day please (for the completed form and supporting documentation to be with the school) in order for all Year 7 appeals to be heard on the same day in the summer term.