September 2026 Entry
ADMISSION PROCEDURES FOR ENTRY TO YEAR 7 SEPTEMBER 2026
Admission arrangements for girls and boys who will be 11 years of age by 1st September 2026 (date of birth between 1st September 2014 and 31st August 2015).
All information with regard to admission to Year 7 for September 2026 can be found by clicking on the link below. You will be able to apply online from Thursday 24th April 2025 for your child to sit the entrance test.
The Admission Authority for this school is the Governing Body and the intended admission number for 2026 is 190. All information with regard to admission to Year 7 for September 2026 can be found on this page.
Click here for Information Booklet Admission 2026
Entrance Test for Admission into Year 7 September 2026
The entrance test took place on Monday 15th September 2025. Applications opened at 12 noon on Thursday 24th April 2025 and closed at 12 noon on Friday 20th June 2025. Late applications cannot be considered for testing and second round offers until 1st March 2026 National School Allocation Day.
Sale Grammar School: Entrance Examination 2026
Thank you for your email to Sale Grammar School Admissions Team.
Due to the significant volume of communications to the school at this time it will not be possible to speak directly with the Admissions Team; however, please refer to the guidance below which may help with your enquiry.
We will endeavour to respond to emails as quickly as we can; however, we do ask for patience as we are extraordinarily busy at this time.
Standardised Scores
If your child has achieved a score of 334 or higher for Sale Grammar School this will be considered a successful outcome; however, this will not guarantee a place at the school. All places are allocated in line with our Oversubscription Criteria – please refer to the Admissions Policy 2026 on the school website
Remarks
We do not remark examination papers. Papers are quality assured by the centre and GL and are processed with 100% accuracy and no papers can be manually re-marked as all candidates must be treated equally.
We would like to confirm the answer sheets are not held by the school and we do not carry out manual remarks. We are completely confident in the quality, integrity and reliability of the process and the accuracy of the scores provided by the service provider, GL Assessment.
GL only provide one standardised score for Sale Grammar School. A breakdown of the examination result will not be available.
Resit Requests
Any candidate who is not successful in the entrance examination can be reassessed. The re-assessment for any candidate who has sat the entrance examination in the academic year commencing September 2025 to July 2026 will not be initiated until the Summer Term of 2027 as we are legally bound to assess only once in any 12-month period.
Internal Review Enquiries
Sale Grammar School no longer carry out an internal review. Please see Admissions Policy for 2025 on the school website.
Appeal Enquiries
Information on statutory appeals is included in the correspondence that parents/carers receive from their Local Authority on 2nd March 2026. Statutory appeals for Sale Grammar School are scheduled to be heard in June 2026. At this stage there is nothing that we are able to do in terms of advice or guidance.
Common Application Form (CAF) Enquiries
It is important, that if you want your child to be considered for a place here, Sale Grammar School must be specified as a preference on the Common Application Form (CAF) by 31st October 2025. If you do not indicate Sale Grammar School on the CAF, this could make your application late and reduce your chance of being offered a place.
The Common Application Form is managed and administered by the local authority of each parent/carer. All information is sent out by local authorities and not Sale Grammar School. Sale Grammar School cannot advise parents/carers on where they should place Sale Grammar School on the CAF. All enquiries relating to the CAF must be directed to local authorities School Admission Services.
Click here for all key dates in relation to Admission into Year 7 September 2026.
Admissions Policy 2026
CLICK HERE for Sale Grammar School Admissions Policy 2026.
Open Evening
The Sale Grammar School Open Evening for Year 5 parents and children took place on Thursday 3rd July 2025 between 5.00pm and 8.00pm. Thank you for your interest in Sale Grammar School.
Exam Provider Information
The Trafford Grammar School Consortium, comprising Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Sale Grammar School, Stretford Grammar School and Urmston Grammar School, are pleased to confirm our partnership with GL Assessment.
As specified in our Admissions Policies, GL will be providing test papers for the entrance exam consisting of two tests, each approximately one hour in length, containing questions that assess verbal, non-verbal and mathematics skills. For each element there will be a range of different types of questions. Questions that test verbal ability skills may include questions relating to word choice, knowledge of words and their meanings and how words relate to each other; students may also be asked questions that relate to verbal reasoning comprehension skills. Questions that test non-verbal ability skills may include questions relating to relationships between shapes and sequences of shapes, identification of common features from a set of figures and applying them to a new figure, codes and spatial awareness questions. Questions that test mathematics skills generally cover content taught in schools up to the start of Year 6. The areas assessed typically include aspects of number, measurement, geometry and statistics. Some questions may involve using current mathematical skills to solve mathematical problems.
GL produces a bespoke paper for the Trafford Consortium so students sitting the examination will not sit the same examination at any other school. The types of questions however, will be similar to those provided in GL's familiarisation material, available below.
The types of questions however, will be similar to those provided in GL’s familiarisation material below.
Entrance Test Familiarisation Guide
CLICK HERE