Warwickshire grammar schools & catchment areas, in plain English.
Warwickshire has 5 grammar schools, in three towns — Stratford-upon-Avon, Rugby and Alcester. All 5 use the county’s shared Warwickshire 11+, and all 5 then rank qualifying children by test score. What varies is the priority area drawn around each school, which is applied before that ranking. This page explains how the two interact, and lets you check your postcode against every one.
Check your postcode against every Warwickshire grammar
See which priority areas you fall inside, 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 Warwickshire grammar admissions work.
All 5 Warwickshire grammars share one entry test, the Warwickshire 11+. You register through Warwickshire County Council’s online portal by 30 June — unusually early, and months before the application itself. The cut-off time on that date varies by school (4pm at some, 11.59pm at others), so check the school’s own guide before leaving it to the last evening. Children sit the test that September and results follow in mid-October, in time to name schools on the form.
You then list your preferred grammars on your home council’s Common Application Form by 31 October. Offers go out on 1 March.
Each school sets its own qualifying score each year. Reaching it makes a child eligible; it does not reserve a place, because every Warwickshire grammar is oversubscribed by qualifying children.
Priority area first, then score rank.
Warwickshire runs a hybrid the other selective counties mostly don’t. Qualifying children are sorted into bands by where they live, and only then ranked by test score within each band. A child inside the priority area is offered a place ahead of a higher-scoring child outside it — so address and score both matter, in that order.
The areas themselves differ. Alcester Grammar and Stratford Girls’ each draw a single priority circle; King Edward VI in Stratford uses two, an inner circle then an outer one; and the Rugby pair — Lawrence Sheriff and Rugby High — put the Eastern Area of Warwickshire first, then a wider Priority Circle beyond it. Straight-line distance breaks ties inside a band.
That layering is hard to read off a council map, because the circles overlap and the Rugby schools’ named area does not. GrammarBound maps each school’s published area and its tie-break — open the map or check your postcode above.
Every Warwickshire grammar school, by town.
All 5 Warwickshire grammar schools. Each links to a plain-English admissions guide with that school’s exact priority area, criteria and deadlines.