Shropshire grammar schools & how to get in.
Shropshire has 2 grammar schools and both are in Newport, a market town in the far east of the county — Newport Girls’ High School and Haberdashers’ Adams, half a mile apart. They register on the same day and test on the same day, then decide places in opposite ways: one puts a boundary area first, the other ranks purely on score. This page explains both, and lets you check your postcode against them.
Check your postcode against both Shropshire grammars
See whether you fall inside the Newport boundary area, your distance to each school and your eligibility — free, no account needed.
Real, published boundaries and the latest distance cut-offs — not straight-line estimates.
How Newport grammar admissions work.
Both schools run their own entrance test, and both close registration at 4pm on 26 June — the summer before Year 6, and months before the council application. Haberdashers’ Adams takes its registrations through the West Midlands Grammar Schools consortium portal; Newport Girls’ High takes its own online. Both sit the test in mid-September and release results in October.
You then name the school on your home council’s Common Application Form by 31 October. Offers go out on 1 March.
Each school sets the academic standard a child must reach each year. Clearing it is where the two schools part company.
One boundary area, one open on score.
Newport Girls’ High School has just 120 Year 7 places and works down a priority order — looked-after girls, a small Pupil Premium group, then girls living inside the Newport boundary area, then everyone else by score. For a girl living in the town, that area is worth more than any number of extra marks.
Haberdashers’ Adams has no catchment area at all. After a few priority groups its 135 day places fill in rank order of test score, wherever a child lives — and it also offers up to 15 boys’ boarding places. It is the realistic option for families across Shropshire, Staffordshire and beyond who are nowhere near Newport.
The rest of Shropshire — Shrewsbury, Telford itself, Ludlow, Oswestry and Bridgnorth — is entirely comprehensive; these 2 in Newport are the county’s complete set. GrammarBound maps the boundary area and the distances — open the map or check your postcode above.
Both Shropshire grammar schools.
Newport Girls’ High School and Haberdashers’ Adams, both in Newport. Each links to a plain-English admissions guide with that school’s exact criteria, test and deadlines.