Yorkshire grammar schools & how to get in.
Yorkshire has 6 grammar schools, scattered across North and West Yorkshire — Skipton, Ripon, Halifax and Heckmondwike. Each runs its own or a local test, and most admit by catchment. This page explains how it works and lets you check your postcode against all 6.
Check your postcode against every Yorkshire grammar
See which catchments 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 Yorkshire grammar admissions work.
Yorkshire’s grammars are spread across the region and don’t share a single test. Ermysted’s and Skipton Girls’ (Skipton) and Ripon Grammar each run their own; Crossley Heath and North Halifax use the Calderdale consortium test; and Heckmondwike runs its own.
You register and sit the relevant test in the autumn of Year 6, then apply through your home council by 31 October. Offers go out on 1 March.
What decides a place above the pass mark differs by school.
Mostly catchment, one on score.
5 of the 6 admit by a catchment area once a child has qualified — a parish for the Skipton schools, a designated area for Ripon, a ward for North Halifax and a postcode area for Heckmondwike.
The exception, Crossley Heath in Halifax, admits on score alone. Several schools also serve wide rural areas with free-transport zones, so distance and geography matter.
GrammarBound maps each catchment and the latest distances — open the map or check your postcode above.
Every Yorkshire grammar school, by town.
All 6 grammar schools across North and West Yorkshire. Each links to a plain-English admissions guide.