Sutton Grammar School A GSG School
- Sutton Grammar School
Manor Lane
Sutton
Surrey
SM1 4AS - Head: Mr B Cloves
- T 020 8642 3821
- F 020 8661 4500
- E office@suttongrammar.sutton.sch.uk
- W www.suttongram….sutton.sch.uk/
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Sutton
- Pupils: 1,100; sixth formers: 300 (20 girls)
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: September
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 22nd June 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Highly selective and usually in the top 10 per cent of the highest achieving schools. Needless to say, it delivers mostly excellent results. It’s made clear to these bright boys (and now girls in sixth form) right from the off that the sky’s the limit to what they can achieve, with some fantastic opportunities that reach well beyond the curriculum. Club list is huge with everything from board games to Young Enterprise club and from electronics to Rubik’s cube club...
What the school says...
In September, Ben Cloves becomes only the seventh headmaster in the 120 year history of the school. He is a mathematician and coincidentally all the previous six have been mathematicians or scientists. This year the school won the prestigious Hans Woyda Maths Competition and three of its senior students are in the training squads for the British Olympiad maths team. Extra curricular activities are encouraged and there is a wealth of STEM based project work leading to many national prizes for students and staff. ...Read more
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since September 2019, Ben Cloves, a mathematician and previously deputy head at Wallington High. Married to Jo; two sons.
Entrance
Places are highly sought after. Nearly 3,000 boys take the Sutton-wide selective eligibility test, which covers the five local grammar schools and involves English and maths multiple-choice questions. Register by mid-August. Around 1,000 get through to phase two, an exam set by the school with more open-ended questions, also in English and maths. Seventy-five of the places go to the highest scorers within a set postcode that ‘doesn’t go far beyond the Sutton boundary’; the other 65 are chosen purely on scores. PTA runs mock test days for around 2,000 children each year wanting to prepare for them. At 16+ around 40 competitive entry places are available for both girls and boys into the sixth form...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
10-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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