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November 21, 2025

Looking for information on your local grammar schools?

We've collated a list of all the grammar schools in England. Discover how to apply to your local grammar school and get tips to help your child prepare for their 11+ exam.

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What is the 11+?

The 11+ is an academic exam taken by children applying to grammar schools. Children take it in the autumn term of Year 6. Grammar schools use the results from the 11+ test to decide which children to offer places to in Year 7.

The exam is designed to be challenging. Grammar schools use it to identify children working at the top of their year group.

The subjects tested can vary, depending on which school you're applying to. Grammar schools usually test some or all of these subjects:

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Grammar schools in Berkshire

Reading

Slough

The grammar schools in Slough are members of the Slough Consortium. Your child will only need to take one 11+ exam to apply to any of these grammar schools.

Grammar schools in Buckinghamshire

All grammar schools in Buckinghamshire are members of The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools – a local 11+ consortium. Your child will only need to take one 11+ exam to apply to any grammar school in Buckinghamshire.

Amersham and Chesham

Aylesbury

Beaconsfield

Buckingham

Burnham

High Wycombe and Marlow

Grammar schools in Cumbria

Grammar schools in Devon

East Devon

Plymouth

Torquay

Grammar schools in Dorset

The four grammar schools in Dorset are members of the Dorset Consortium. Your child will only need to take one 11+ exam to apply to any of these schools.

Grammar schools in Essex

All of the grammar schools in Essex except Chelmsford County High School for Girls are members of the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex (CSSE). If your child is applying to any grammar school within the CSSE, they only need to take one 11+ exam.

Chelmsford

Colchester

Southend-on-Sea

Grammar schools in Gloucestershire

All grammar schools in Gloucestershire are members of the Gloucestershire Grammar School Consortium. Children applying to any of these schools only need to take the Gloucestershire Grammar Schools Entrance Test once.

Cheltenham

Gloucester

Stroud

Grammar schools in Greater London

Barnet

Bexley

Bromley

Enfield

Kingston upon Thames

Redbridge

Sutton

All of the following schools use the Sutton Selective Eligibility Test (SET) to assess children for entry. Children who perform well in the SET are shortlisted for a second-stage exam to apply to a grammar school.

Wandsworth

There are no grammar schools in Wandsworth, but five state schools are partially selective. Children applying for a selective place at one of these schools take the Wandsworth Test.

Grammar schools in Greater Manchester

All of the grammar schools except Loreto Grammar School and Saint Ambrose College are members of the Trafford Consortium. Children applying to any of these five grammar schools only need to take one 11+ exam.

If your child is applying to Loreto Grammar School or Saint Ambrose College, they will need to take the school's own tests.

Grammar schools in Hertfordshire

There are no fully-selective state schools in Hertfordshire. There are 14 partially-selective schools, of which seven are members of the South West Herts Schools Consortium.

Children applying for a specific place at any of these schools only need to take the test once.

Bishop's Stortford

Cheshunt

Potters Bar

Watford

Grammar schools in Kent

There are 32 grammar schools in the Kent County Council local authority area. All of these schools use the Kent Test to assess children for entry.

Ashford

Broadstairs

Canterbury

Cranbrook

Dartford

Dover

Folkestone

Gravesend

Maidstone

Sittingbourne & Faversham

Tunbridge Wells

Grammar schools in Lancashire

Grammar schools in Lincolnshire

All of the grammar schools in Lincolnshire are members of the Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools. Your child will only need to take one 11+ exam to apply to any grammar school in Lincolnshire.

Boston

Bourne and Spalding

Gainsborough

Grantham

Louth

Skegness and Spilsby

Sleaford

Grammar schools in Medway

All of the grammar schools in Medway use the Medway Test to assess children for entry. Your child will only need to take the Medway Test once to apply to any of these schools.

Grammar schools in Merseyside

Calday Grange Grammar School, West Kirby Grammar School, Wirral Grammar School for Boys and Wirral Grammar School for Girls all use the Wirral Admissions Test to assess children for entry. The other grammar schools in Merseyside have their own 11+ exams.

Liverpool

The Wirral

Grammar schools in the West Midlands

Children applying to any grammar school in the West Midlands will only need to take one exam. This is known as the West Midlands Grammar Schools Entrance Test.

Birmingham

Shropshire, Walsall & Wolverhampton

Warwickshire

Grammar schools in Wiltshire

Grammar schools in Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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