Wolverhampton Girls’ High School 11 Plus (11+) Exam Guide

About Wolverhampton Girls’ High School

Wolverhampton Girls’ High School is a girls’ state grammar school in Wolverhampton. The Published Admission Number for Year 7 in September 2027 is 180.

Entry into Year 7 is by the entrance test shared across the West Midlands Grammar Schools Partnership, sat in September of Year 6 and set by GL Assessment.

The school has no catchment area and says so explicitly: families living inside and beyond the City of Wolverhampton may apply on the same footing. It is an academy and its own admission authority, so it does not appear in the city council’s admissions booklet.

Key information for 2027 entry to Wolverhampton Girls’ High School at 11 Plus (11+)

• School type: girls’ state grammar school
• Test provider: GL Assessment, for the test shared across the West Midlands Grammar Schools Partnership
• Registration: on the West Midlands Grammar Schools website, opening 5 May 2026 and closing at 4pm on 26 June 2026
• Test dates: within a window of 12 to 14 September 2026. check your registration confirmation for the assigned day
• Results date: 16 October 2026
• Application deadline to your local authority: 31 October 2026
• National Offer Day: 1 March 2027
• Year 7 places available: 180
• Contact details: wghs.org.uk, [email protected], 01902 551515

Admissions information for 2027 entry to Wolverhampton Girls’ High School at 11 Plus (11+)

No pass mark is published in advance. The qualifying score is set each year after the papers have been marked and the order of merit is known, so there is no target number to aim at and no figure from a previous year that you should treat as the bar.

Wolverhampton Girls’ allocates places in two stages, which is unusual and worth following carefully.

In the first stage, looked after and previously looked after girls who reach the qualifying score are offered places automatically, and so are the first 25 girls eligible for the Pupil Premium, ranked by score, who are at or above the qualifying score. Any remaining Pupil Premium candidates fold back into the second stage rather than losing their place in the queue.

In the second stage, the remaining places are awarded in strict rank order of standardised score.

To be eligible at all, a girl needs to score within 2% of the last automatic place, or, for Pupil Premium candidates, at or above the qualifying score. Ties are broken differently depending on the stage: by straight-line distance in the first, and in the second by looked after status, then Pupil Premium, then distance, then the twins and multiple-birth rule. Make sure you check the school’s current admission arrangements for the full ordered list, as they are reviewed each year.

How can I register my child for the 11 Plus (11+) exams at Wolverhampton Girls’ High School?

You do not register with Wolverhampton Girls’ High School directly, and you do not register with the council either. Registration for the entrance test is done through the West Midlands Grammar Schools website, which covers every school in the partnership.

The registration portal opens on 5 May 2026 and closes at 4pm on 26 June 2026. Registering for the test and applying for a school place are two separate steps, and you need to do both: the application for a place goes to your home local authority on the Common Application Form.

At registration you choose which schools your child’s result is shared with, so it is worth deciding your list before you start. Make sure you check the partnership’s own pages for the current registration link and closing time, as these are confirmed each year.

The application process is:

• Register your daughter for the entrance test on the West Midlands Grammar Schools website between 5 May and 4pm on 26 June 2026, naming the schools you want the result shared with
• Sit the test in the testing window of 12 to 14 September 2026. Check your registration confirmation for the day your child is assigned.
• Receive the result on 16 October 2026
• Apply to your home local authority for a school place, naming Wolverhampton Girls’ High School, by 31 October 2026
• Receive your offer on National Offer Day, 1 March 2027

What is the 11 Plus (11+) entrance exam format for Wolverhampton Girls’ High School?

The entrance test is shared across the West Midlands Grammar Schools Partnership, a group of grammar schools spanning Birmingham, Shropshire, Walsall, Warwickshire and Wolverhampton. One test, one set of papers, one result. It is set by GL Assessment and is made up of two multiple-choice papers.

• Paper 1 and Paper 2 – around 50 to 60 minutes each, including time for instructions and practice questions
• Verbal ability, which includes reading comprehension, together with verbal reasoning – 50% of the marks
• Non-verbal and spatial reasoning – 25% of the marks
• Mathematics – 25% of the marks

It is important to note that the subjects are not split one per paper. Each paper mixes the three skill areas, so your child needs to be comfortable switching between question types inside a single paper. English is not a separate paper here: comprehension and vocabulary sit inside the verbal ability questions.

Answers are marked on a separate machine-read answer sheet rather than in the booklet, and are marked at least twice. Scores are standardised for age, so a summer-born child is not judged against the raw marks of older classmates. For more on this provider, see our GL Assessment guide.

A rough guide to topics covered:

• Verbal ability and verbal reasoning – reading comprehension, inference, vocabulary in context, synonyms and antonyms, word relationships, letter and number sequences, codes and logic puzzles
• Mathematics – arithmetic, fractions, decimals and percentages, measurement and unit conversions, algebra, geometry, statistics and word problems
• Non-verbal and spatial reasoning – sequences, rotations, reflections, nets and odd-one-out questions with shapes

Familiarisation material is published by GL Assessment and linked from the partnership’s own pages. Because one result covers every school in the partnership you consent to share it with, a single set of practice material serves all of your child’s applications.

Wolverhampton Girls’ High School 11 Plus (11+) top tips for your child

• Practise switching between question types. Each paper mixes verbal, non-verbal and maths questions, so you need to change gear quickly rather than settle into one subject.
• Read widely and keep a vocabulary notebook. Verbal ability and verbal reasoning are worth half of all the marks, and comprehension sits inside them, so this is where your effort pays off most.
• Practise marking answers on a separate answer sheet. The papers are marked by machine, so a clear mark in the right box matters as much as knowing the answer!
• Learn the common non-verbal reasoning patterns. Rotations, reflections, nets and sequences come up again and again, and they get much quicker with practice.
• Keep your times tables and quick calculations sharp. Maths is a quarter of the marks and the questions are tightly timed.
• Remember you only sit the test once. The same result goes to every school you have chosen, so there is no need to panic about doing it again for each one.
• Don’t panic about one difficult question! Move on, keep a steady pace, and come back to anything you skipped if there is time left.

How to prepare your child for the 11 Plus (11+) Wolverhampton Girls’ High School exam

Preparing for Wolverhampton Girls’ High School means preparing for the shared West Midlands partnership test, so the ground to cover is verbal ability and verbal reasoning, mathematics, and non-verbal and spatial reasoning. Verbal work carries half the marks, and reading comprehension sits inside it rather than in a paper of its own, so reading widely and building vocabulary is the single highest-value thing your daughter can do over the year before the test.

The most useful way to prepare is to use practice tests that match this format, so your daughter gets used to multiple-choice questions across all three skill areas, to moving between them inside one paper, to transferring answers accurately onto a separate answer sheet, and to keeping to time. That familiarity is what stops the format itself being a surprise on the day.

One test result covers every school in the partnership you choose to share it with, including Haberdashers’ Adams Grammar School, Newport Girls’ High School, Queen Mary’s Grammar School and Queen Mary’s High School, so a single set of material serves all of your applications.

For Wolverhampton Girls’ High School 11+ preparation, we recommend the following packs: