Urmston Grammar Academy

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 7), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1EHCP naming the school — Places are initially allocated to candidates with an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) who have named the school and have successfully met the entry requirements for the school.
2. 2Looked after / previously looked after children — A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order including those who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. A looked after child is a child who is (a) in the care of a local authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a local authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989).
3. 3Entry Category B - Pupil Premium high scorers (approx. 15 places) — Approximately 15 places will be allocated to the highest performing applicants who qualify for Pupil Premium, irrespective of distance, provided they achieve a minimum score of 324 or 334R, and who did not qualify under Entry Category A above. Applicants on Pupil Premium, with equal scores to the lowest candidate in this second allocation will also be offered places.
4. 4Entry Category C - top scoring candidates (approx. 20 places) — Using the first list (rank score order) of candidates, the (20) top scoring candidates, irrespective of home residence, will be allocated a place under Category C. Candidates with equal scores to the lowest candidate in this second allocation will also be offered places.
5. 5Entry Category D - children of long-serving staff — Children who have parents who are serving members of Urmston Grammar staff, and who have had a permanent contract at UGS for at least eight continuous years will be offered a place provided they still achieve a qualifying score.
6. 6Entry Category E - siblings — Applicants who have a sibling who is a student on role at Urmston Grammar School on the day that the admissions assessment was sat will be offered a place at the school regardless of their place of residence. 'Sibling' means any child residing at the same address as the applicant as part of the same family unit at the time of the proposed admission, whether as full, half, step, adopted or foster sibling.
7. 7Entry Category F - distance (approx. 120 places) — Upon removing the candidates who are allocated places via Entry Categories A, B, C, D and E, places in category F will be allocated in accordance with their distance from the school to their home address as per a straight line, firstly by M41 and M31 postcodes followed by the remaining candidates.

If two applications tie: If there are two or more applications that cannot be separated by the oversubscription criteria outlined above, the school will use the distance between the school and a child's home to decide between applicants. Priority will be given to children who live closest to the school. Random allocation will be used as a tiebreak to decide who has the highest priority for admission where the qualifying score and the distance between the applicants' home and the school is the same.

Urmston Grammar is part of a consortium sharing an entrance examination for Year 7 entry. Total accommodation for Years 7-11 is stated as up to 780 pupils, with 150 places for the Year 7 intake. Applicant date of birth range specified: 1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016.

Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.