Entry to Year 7 in September 2026
Key Dates
| Online registration portal opens | Tuesday 6 May 2025 |
| Deadline for submitting SEN form (if applicable) | Friday 13 June 2025 |
| Online registration portal closes | 4pm, Friday 27 June 2025 |
| Entrance Test invitation letters sent to parents of students who registered on time. | by Monday 8 September 2025 |
| Entrance Test (for those sitting at NGHS) | Monday 15 September 2025 |
| Deadline for submitting LA preference form | Friday 31 October 2025 |
| National Offers Day | Sunday 1 March 2026 (or next working day) |
Application Process – Application to the School to sit the Test - September 2026 Entry
The online registration portal for September 2026 entry is now closed.
Invitation letters containing full details of arrangements for the test day will be sent to parents/carers in September 2025. If your daughter was registered on time, allocated NGHS as her test centre and you have not received an invitation letter by Monday 8 September, please contact us via: admissions@nghs.org.uk. Please do not contact us before this date.
Late Applications to sit the Entrance Test
In exceptional circumstances, late applications may be submitted with supporting evidence to provide the reasons for the late application. Consideration will be given to late applications and, if accepted, provision will be made for the child to sit the Entrance Test at a later date.
The Test
We administer the Test as part of a Consortium of Grammar Schools in Shropshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton but are part of the larger partnership of grammar schools, known as ‘West Midlands Grammar Schools’, which incorporates all Birmingham, Shropshire, Walsall, Warwickshire, and Wolverhampton grammar schools.
The Test comprises two papers. Normally, each test paper is approx. 50 minutes in length. School administration for each test will normally be one-hour.
Candidates are given a short break between the papers. Questions are included in question booklets. Candidates MUST write answers on the separate answer sheets provided.
Application Process – Application to the Local Authority
As well as applying to the school to sit our Test, parents must also apply to their own Local Authority. This usually involves completing their Local Authority’s online application, indicating parents’ preference of schools. Parents should list schools in order of their choice and not based on test result. Local Authorities will allocate children the highest preference school they are eligible to be offered a place at. The deadline is 31 October 2025. Places are allocated by home Local Authorities, on 1st March 2026 or next working day.