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Alcester Grammar School

  • 11–18Ages
  • 1,299Pupils
  • SecondaryPhase
  • SelectiveGrammar school
  • Sixth formAges 16–18
  • 136622URN

Birmingham Road, Alcester, B49 5ED · School website

Applications per placeCircle size: applicationsThis school
Latest Ofsted

Graded inspection · Dec 2022 Previous framework

Outstanding
  • Quality of education
  • Behaviour and attitudes
  • Personal development
  • Leadership and management
What Ofsted found
Applications per place · Sept 2026
5.5per place
2.9 above Warwickshire median (2.6)
Fewer applicationsMore

This schoolOther secondary schools in WarwickshireSelective

820 applications for 149 places · 1st of 39 in Warwickshire
Every year since 2014
Attainment 8 · 2025/26 (provisional)
75.5of 90
5th of 37 in Warwickshire
All GCSE results

What did Ofsted find?

Ofsted data to 30 September 2026
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding · 7 December 2022Ofsted's previous 4-point scale (to August 2024)
AreaOutstandingGoodRequires improvementInadequate
Quality of educationOutstanding
Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
Personal developmentOutstanding
Leadership and managementOutstanding
Sixth form provisionGood

Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades

About these grades

Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.

How hard is it to get a place?

DfE · Sept 2026 entry
5.5applications per place, Year 7
2.9 above Warwickshire median (2.6) 3.3 above England median (2.2)

820 applications · 149 places offered · 293 named it first

SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.

  1. 2026 5.5; Warwickshire median median 2.6
  2. 2025 5.3; Warwickshire median median 2.5
  3. 2024 5.5; Warwickshire median median 2.4
  4. 2023 4.8; Warwickshire median median 2.5
  5. 2022 4.4; Warwickshire median median 2.1
  6. 2021 5.8; Warwickshire median median 2.0
  7. 2020 4.1; Warwickshire median median 2.0
  8. 2019 4.0; Warwickshire median median 1.9
  9. 2018 3.6; Warwickshire median median 1.8
  10. 2017 3.4; Warwickshire median median 1.9
  11. 2016 4.3; Warwickshire median median 1.8
  12. 2015 3.3; Warwickshire median median 1.6
  13. 2014 4.2; Warwickshire median median 1.6
More applications per place than the Warwickshire median in 13 of 13 years.
  • This school
  • Warwickshire median

Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council

Selective: register for the entrance test with the school first, usually by the summer before (dates vary). Dates

How this is measured

Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.

EntryPlacesApplicationsPer placeFirst preferencesFirst-pref. ratio
Sep 20261498205.52931.97
Sep 20251517975.32911.93
Sep 20241468085.52922.00
Sep 20231446934.82391.66
Sep 20221486574.42501.69
Sep 20211498635.83402.28
Sep 20201496034.12391.60
Sep 20191485984.02531.71
Sep 20181485323.62281.54
Sep 20171485093.41981.34
Sep 20161496364.32982.00
Sep 20151525043.32101.38
Sep 20141205054.22442.03

How did pupils do at GCSE?

DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisional

153 pupils took GCSEs in 2025/26.

Attainment 8 (out of 90)75.55th of 37 in Warwickshire
Grade 5 or above in English and maths99%3rd of 37 in Warwickshire
Grade 4 or above in English and maths99%
  • This school
  • Warwickshire median
  • England median
Progress 8 (2023/24, the latest published)+0.56
−20 = national average+2
Every year as a table
YearPupilsAttainment 85+ Eng & maths4+ Eng & mathsProgress 8
2025/26 (prov.)15375.599%99%–
2024/2515173.7100%100%–
2023/2415373.297%100%+0.56
2022/2315471.096%99%+0.33

Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.

Schools nearby

The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority

  • Exceptional
  • Strong standard
  • Expected standard
  • Needs attention
  • Urgent improvement
  • Does not apply

Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
URN · DfE number
136622 · 937/5407
Trust
Alcester Grammar School
Admissions policy
Selective
Capacity
1,290 pupils · 1,299 on roll
Free school meals
1.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
Opened
1 April 2011
Replaced
Alcester Grammar School (URN 125770)
Address
Birmingham Road, Alcester, B49 5ED
Local authority
Warwickshire · Stratford-on-Avon

Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources