Wolverhampton Girls' High School is a grammar school for girls on Tettenhall Road in Wolverhampton, and girls enter at eleven on the shared West Midlands entrance test. This page covers Wolverhampton 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.
Two papers, four areas, one sitting
The entrance test is not written by the school. It is the shared West Midlands Grammar Schools test, sat once in September of Year 6, and the same result serves every partnership school named when a family registers. 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.
It arrives as two multiple-choice papers, each running about fifty to sixty minutes. The instructions and the worked examples happen inside that time, not before it. Each paper mixes the areas rather than taking one each, so a girl cannot settle into a single mode and stay there.
Verbal reasoning and English comprehension sit on one side of the weighting and take half the marks between them. Mathematics takes a quarter. Non-verbal reasoning, spatial work included, takes the other quarter. Answers are recorded on a separate sheet, where one misplaced row costs a run of marks that were otherwise earned.
What should we work on, and when?
Start with reading, and start before Year 6. Half of the available marks hang on comprehension and verbal reasoning, and that half is the part that cannot be assembled quickly. Vocabulary in particular accumulates over years and shows up everywhere in both papers.
Non-verbal reasoning is the opposite. Show a girl the question types once, let her practise until they are familiar, and most of the gain is already banked. There is little point grinding at it for months. Mathematics usually needs pace and multi-step problems rather than new content.
Reserve the last stretch for whole papers against a clock, on a separate answer sheet. What that rehearses is not knowledge but the switching, and the switching is where otherwise composed children lose marks they should have had.
What kind of school is Wolverhampton Girls' High?
It describes itself as a grammar school for girls in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands, and it stands on Tettenhall Road. It has a sixth form which continues the girls' school above sixteen, and it is run by its own academy trust rather than sitting inside a larger group of schools.
The motto is Ludus Supra Praemium, which the school explains as emphasising the value of taking part as a member of the school community. It speaks of a long and established history of providing education for girls over more than a hundred years.
The house system dates to 1926 and has four houses: Audley, Ferrers, Stafford and Paget, each drawing girls from every year group across the eleven to eighteen range and competing in cultural, creative, sporting and academic events. The school's stated aim is that students develop skills for lifelong success, understanding themselves as learners and growing into responsible citizens.
What do parents have to do, and by when?
Two things, in this order, handled by two different organisations. First, register your daughter for the entrance test. That is done online with the partnership during the summer term of Year 5, in a window short enough to miss entirely while you are busy with something else.
Second, apply for a school place. That is a separate process, run by your local council in the autumn of Year 6, and it is where you set your preferences. Registering for the test does not apply for a place, and applying for a place does not register for the test.
Primary schools sit this out: the entrance test registration is a parent's job from start to finish. Your daughter's school does not submit it, is not told whether you have, and will not remind you as the window closes.
Check this first: you will not find a qualifying score, an intake figure, a catchment description or a deadline anywhere on this page. They are reset annually, and the versions circulating in parent groups tend to run a year or two behind. Check both of these:
Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton Girls' High School
Does the school set its own entrance test?+
No. It uses the shared West Midlands Grammar Schools entrance test, sat once in September of Year 6. The result is passed to every partnership school named at registration, so a family preparing for this school is preparing for all of them at once.
What does the school motto mean?+
Ludus Supra Praemium. The school explains it as emphasising the value of taking part as a member of the school community, which is also the logic behind a house system running since 1926: Audley, Ferrers, Stafford and Paget, drawn from every year group.
Is the sixth form girls only?+
The school is a grammar school for girls and its sixth form continues that provision above sixteen. Its own sixth form material refers to applicants throughout as her and she. If you need a definite answer about a son, ask the school directly rather than inferring one from this page.
How early should preparation start?+
Reading should start as early as you can manage, because comprehension and verbal reasoning decide half the marks and neither moves quickly. Formal work on question types is usually enough from Year 5, provided the registration is not forgotten in the same summer term.
Other schools in this consortium
Wolverhampton 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.
- Haberdashers' Adams, mixed, in Newport, Shropshire.
- Newport Girls' High School, girls, in Newport, Shropshire.
- Queen Mary's Grammar School, boys, in Walsall.
- Queen Mary's High School, girls, in Walsall.
Where to go next
- The West Midlands 11 plus entrance test, one test, one sitting, every partnership school.
- Online 11 plus mock tests, timed mixed papers with a separate answer sheet.
- 11 plus maths topics, the quarter that turns on pace, not new content.
- What the 11 plus actually is, the process end to end, for a first-time parent.