Gloucestershire grammar schools & how to get in.
Gloucestershire has 7 grammar schools in Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud, all entered through the county-wide Gloucestershire Test. Most are super-selective — admitted on score alone — while a couple add a catchment tie-break. This page explains how it works and lets you check your postcode against all 7.
Check your postcode against every Gloucestershire grammar
See which schools admit on score alone, which use a catchment, and your distance to each — free, no account needed.
Real, published boundaries and the latest distance cut-offs — not straight-line estimates.
How Gloucestershire grammar admissions work.
All seven Gloucestershire grammars use one entry test — the Gloucestershire Test (verbal, non-verbal and numerical reasoning, set by GL Assessment). Children sit it in September of Year 6; you register over the preceding summer. A standardised score sets the qualifying mark.
You then apply through your home council by 31 October; offers go out on 1 March.
Where the schools differ is what happens above the pass mark.
Score, or catchment tie-break.
5 of the 7 are super-selective: among qualified children, places go strictly to the highest scorers, regardless of address — The Crypt, Sir Thomas Rich’s, Ribston Hall and the two Stroud schools (Stroud High and Marling).
The other 2 — Pate’s in Cheltenham and Denmark Road in Gloucester — apply a designated catchment area, so for those two, location matters as well as score.
GrammarBound maps the catchment areas and the latest distances — open the map or check your postcode above.
Every Gloucestershire grammar school, by town.
All 7 grammar schools across Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud. Each links to a plain-English admissions guide.