England · Grammar school
Urmston Grammar Academy
Urmston · Mixed (co-educational) · ages 11 to 18
Official record: Get Information About Schools (URN 136297)
Overview
- Address
- Newton Road, Urmston, Manchester, M41 5UG
- Status
- Open
- Admits
- Mixed (co-educational)
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Number of pupils
- 1,137
- Capacity
- 1,097
- Eligible for free school meals
- 7.3%
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School type
- Academy converter
- Religious character
- None
- Trust
- Not yet available
- Local authority
- Trafford
Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026 · Source: Desk research (cited public sources) (get-information-schools.service.gov.uk), last checked 31 October 2026
Admissions and the 11+
- Admissions policy
- Selective (grammar school)
- Selection in this area
- Fully selective area36% of Year 7 places offered in Trafford for September 2026 were at selective schools (DfE applications and offers). We class an area as fully selective at 25% or more. Confirm with the local authority's admissions guide.
- Entrance test
- Trafford Consortium test
- Qualifying score
- standardised score 334 or above (2026 entry)
- Catchment area
- For September 2026 entry, after about 20 top-scoring places, 10 Pupil Premium places and staff children, the remaining places (about 120) are given by straight-line distance from home to school, with children in the M41 and M31 postcode districts considered first and then everyone else.Postcode areas: M41, M31
- Children from outside the catchment
- Yes: For September 2026 entry, the 20 highest-scoring children get places wherever they live, and 10 places go to the highest-scoring Pupil Premium children regardless of distance. Children outside M41 and M31 are then offered any remaining distance places after M41 and M31 children.
Past offers: lowest score and furthest distance
| Intake | Applicant group | Lowest score offered | Last distance offered | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 2026 | last category reachedThe search summary gave the 2026 distance as 6.042 miles. Category label not seen. | – | 9.72 km (6.04 miles) | trafford.gov.uksecondary source |
| Sept 2025 | Category E (last category reached)'Some Category E to 5.327 miles' | – | 8.57 km (5.33 miles) | trafford.gov.uksecondary source |
| Sept 2024 | Category E (last category reached)'Some Category E to 4.629 miles' | – | 7.45 km (4.63 miles) | trafford.gov.uksecondary source |
From published allocation data found in desk research (checked 1 November 2026); not yet confirmed with the school. Scores from different tests or years are not comparable, and a past cut-off does not guarantee a future place.
Applications and offers for Year 7
For September 2026 entry, 1,116 applicants named this school (237 as their first choice) for 169 places. 71 of 169 offers went to children living outside Trafford.
| Intake | Places offered | Applicants | First choice | First choices per place | Offers to children outside Trafford |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 2026 | 169 | 1,116 | 237 | 1.4 | 71 |
| Sept 2025 | 169 | 1,056 | 216 | 1.3 | 61 |
| Sept 2024 | 164 | 1,054 | 241 | 1.5 | 57 |
| Sept 2023 | 152 | 905 | 199 | 1.3 | 63 |
| Sept 2022 | 179 | 926 | 242 | 1.4 | 78 |
Show all 13 years
| Intake | Places offered | Applicants | First choice | First choices per place | Offers to children outside Trafford |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 2021 | 151 | 1,424 | 371 | 2.5 | 64 |
| Sept 2020 | 154 | 1,061 | 336 | 2.2 | 30 |
| Sept 2019 | 150 | 902 | 218 | 1.5 | 63 |
| Sept 2018 | 153 | 999 | 273 | 1.8 | 46 |
| Sept 2017 | 163 | 939 | 321 | 2.0 | 28 |
| Sept 2016 | 159 | 698 | 284 | 1.8 | 53 |
| Sept 2015 | 153 | 704 | 294 | 1.9 | 34 |
| Sept 2014 | 153 | 638 | 270 | 1.8 | 53 |
"Applicants" counts every family that listed the school as any preference, so it is higher than the number competing for each place. "Outside Trafford" means a home in another local authority; it is not the school's catchment area. For grammar schools, offers also depend on the entrance test result.
Source: Secondary and primary school applications and offers (Department for Education), last checked 31 October 2026
Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026 · Source: Admissions research (cited public sources) (leadingtuition.co.uk, urmstongrammar.org.uk), last checked 1 November 2026
Key dates for September 2027 entry
- Test registration (Trafford grammar schools)
- 23 April 2026 to 19 June 2026
- Test date
- 14 September 2026Consortium (Altrincham Boys/Girls, Sale, Stretford, Urmston) use one GL test on 14 Sep. Results mid-October by email (no exact date). Loreto Grammar runs own process: registration 27 Jun-31 Jul 2026, test 18 Sep. Late applications only in exceptional circumstances. Sources are tuition guides.
- Results sent to families
- Not yet available
- Apply to your council (September 2027 entry)
- By 31 October 2026This date has passed: late applications go to your council and are usually considered after on-time ones.
- National offer day
- 1 March 2027Offers are sent on 1 March, or the next working day.
- Open days
- Not yet available
- School opened (current registration)
- 1 September 2010
Unverified: test dates come from desk research (medium confidence). Confirm them with the council or test organiser. Sources: leadingtuition.co.uk, atomlearning.com.
Statutory dates: School Admissions Code (Department for Education).
Guide to the Trafford grammar schools and its schools · How applying works
Source: Test dates research (cited public sources) (leadingtuition.co.uk), last checked 1 November 2026 · Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026
Ofsted inspection
Inspected on 14 July 2026. Read the report ↗
- Achievement
- Strong standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Strong standard
- Inclusion
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Post-16 provision
- Strong standard
- Safeguarding
- Met
From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives an overall grade for state schools.
Inspection history (3)
Source: Ofsted inspection reports, last checked 31 October 2026
Exam results
GCSE results 2025/26 (provisional)
| Measure | This school | Selective schools in England | All state schools in England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8Average grade across 8 GCSE-level subjects, doubled for English and maths (maximum 90). | 75.6 | 72.1 | 46.2 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 99.3% | 93.7% | 46.3% |
| Grade 7 or above in English and maths | 70.2% | 57.7% | 14.2% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 99.3% | 98.3% | 64.8% |
| Progress 8Not published for most schools in recent years, because primary school tests were cancelled in 2020 and 2021. | – | – | – |
Attainment 8 over time: 75.9 (2023/24) → 71.7 (2024/25) → 75.6 (2025/26).
151 pupils took GCSEs. Results reflect a selective intake: compare grammar schools with each other rather than with all schools.
Source: Key stage 4 performance (GCSE results) (Department for Education), last checked 31 October 2026
How to get there
- Postcode
- M41 5UG
- Map location
- 53.45054, -2.36104
- Open in OpenStreetMap
- Directions and surroundings ↗
- Telephone
- 01617482875
Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026
Official links and documents
- School website
- www.urmstongrammar.org.uk
- Official register record
- Get Information About Schools (URN 136297) ↗
- Admissions policy document
- Not yet available
- Further reading
- Wikipedia ↗
Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026