Newport Girls' High School is a state grammar school for girls on Wellington Road in Newport, Shropshire, entered at eleven on the shared West Midlands entrance test. This page covers Newport Girls' High School entry at eleven by the GL Assessment test, for children now in Year 3 to Year 5, and not sixth form, fees or A levels.
How does a girl get a place at eleven?
There is no Newport-only paper. The school sits inside the West Midlands Grammar Schools Partnership, which runs a single entrance test for the whole group. It is taken once, in September of Year 6, and the result is shared with the partnership schools a family names. The paper itself is set by GL Assessment, the assessment publisher the partnership uses, so the format is the same at every school in the group.
Registration is where the year is won or lost, and it happens long before the test. A parent registers online in the summer term of Year 5. The window is short. Primary schools play no part in it and cannot be relied on for a reminder.
Reaching the standard and receiving an offer are two separate outcomes. The test settles the first. The school's own published arrangements settle the second, choosing between the girls who qualified. Read those arrangements while you still have time to change a preference order.
Two separate forms: the entrance test registration goes to the partnership in Year 5. The application for a school place goes to your local council in the autumn of Year 6. Completing one does nothing at all about the other, and nobody will chase you for the first.
What do the two papers ask?
Both papers are multiple choice and both are mixed. Each is timetabled at somewhere between fifty and sixty minutes, and the instructions and worked examples sit inside that figure rather than beside it, so the answering time is shorter than the timetable suggests.
Between them the papers sample English comprehension, verbal reasoning, mathematics and non-verbal reasoning, spatial questions included. The marks are not spread evenly. Comprehension and verbal reasoning are half the total between them, mathematics is a quarter, and non-verbal reasoning is the remaining quarter.
Answers are entered on a separate answer sheet. That sounds trivial and it is not. A girl who slips one row can lose a sequence of marks she had genuinely earned, and she will usually find out only once the paper is over.
What is the school itself like?
The school is on Wellington Road in Newport and describes itself as one of the country's leading girls' schools. It draws from the town and from a good deal further out, naming Telford, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Market Drayton and Wolverhampton among the places its girls travel in from.
Travel matters more than it sounds when the journey is part of what you are choosing, and it is worth being honest about that before you set a preference order.
The stated aims are to provide a high-quality education which enables all students to reach their full potential as life-long learners, and to foster a safe, inclusive environment in which all are valued, respected and celebrated. There is a house system, which the school points to as the clearest expression of what it calls a family feel.
Where is preparation time best spent?
Put the hours where the marks are. Half the result comes from reading and words, and that half is the slowest to move. Wide reading, a habit of looking up unfamiliar vocabulary, and regular comprehension work from Year 4 on will do more than any late push.
Non-verbal reasoning is worth meeting early and then leaving alone. Girls climb quickly while the question types are new and then plateau, so the returns arrive fast and stop. Mathematics generally needs speed and multi-step reasoning rather than fresh topics.
Then rehearse the format itself. Sitting a full mixed paper against a clock, with a separate answer sheet, is the only way to find out whether your daughter can move between a passage, a code puzzle and a shape sequence without losing her footing.
Check this first: nothing on this page is a number you can act on, and that is deliberate. Scores, intake figures, catchment lines and cycle dates change every year, and second-hand versions are almost always stale. Read the primary sources instead:
Newport Girls' High School official website and the partnership's own site. Check the school's official admissions page for this year's figures.
Pathway Eleven has no connection to Newport Girls' High School, to the partnership or to any admissions authority. We cannot register a child, confirm eligibility, or say anything about catchment or your chances. Pathway Eleven is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GL Assessment.
Common questions about Newport Girls' High School entry
Does Newport Girls' High School set its own exam?+
No. It is part of the West Midlands Grammar Schools Partnership, which runs one shared entrance test in September of Year 6. Your daughter sits it once and the outcome is passed to each partnership school you named when you registered.
When do we have to register?+
Online, during the summer term of Year 5, through the partnership rather than through the school. The window is short and closes many months before the test itself. Check the partnership's own site for the dates covering your daughter's year group.
Is there boarding at Newport Girls' High School?+
No, it is a day school. Three coach services run from Telford, Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury, which is how many girls from further out reach it. If boarding is what you need, that is a different search, and the school's own site is the place to confirm what it offers.
Does a strong test result guarantee an offer?+
No. Qualifying and being offered a place are separate steps. The test decides whether a girl has reached the standard. The school's published arrangements then decide which of the qualified girls are offered places, and those arrangements are what a preference order should follow.
Other schools in this consortium
Newport Girls' High School is one of the partnership's Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Walsall schools. The shared entrance test covers all of them, so naming more than one costs a family nothing extra in preparation.
- Queen Mary's Grammar School, boys, in Walsall.
- Queen Mary's High School, girls, in Walsall.
- Wolverhampton Girls' High School, girls, in Wolverhampton.
- Haberdashers' Adams, mixed, in Newport, Shropshire.
Where to go next
- The West Midlands 11 plus entrance test, every partnership school, and how the shared test is run.
- How to prepare for the 11 plus, a plan that matches effort to the weighting of the marks.
- Online 11 plus mock tests, full mixed papers, timed, on a separate answer sheet.
- 11 plus maths topics, the quarter of the paper where speed earns marks.