Queen Mary's Grammar School A GSG School
- Queen Mary's Grammar School
Sutton Road
Walsall
West Midlands
WS1 2PG - Head: Richard Langton
- T 01922 720696
- F 01922 725932
- E [email protected]
- W qmgs.walsall.sch.uk
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Walsall
- Pupils: 1,314; sixth formers: 478 (136 girls; 342 boys)
- Religion: None
- Open days: Sixth form: November; Whole school open evening: June
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 28th March 2023
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Award-winning, proactive approach to mental health, with the welfare hub supporting pupils both academically and emotionally – a group of year 7s were having a session on emotional literacy when we visited. Enrichment a real boon, and the clincher for many families. ‘Other grammars just didn’t have the more rounded outlook.’ Includes theatre trips in English, STEM Olympiad competitions, regular Arkwright scholarships, DT initiative with Morgan Motors, plus clubs and societies galore. Two pupils had asked to set up a debating club on the…
What the school says...
Language College status from September 2002.
Entrance requirements are as follows: 11 - Verbal, Non-verbal reasoning. No Interview. 16 - GCSE results and reference from school.
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2018, Richard Langton, previously deputy head and head of school at QMGS, and before that, at Lawrence Sheriff School for 11 years, where he was head of geography and head of year. State educated, he decided on a teaching career ‘because of my love of my subject’ towards the end of his geography degree at Birmingham – a subject he still teaches, alongside PE. He holds an MA in geography education and has led several World Challenge expeditions.
Not a head to do things by halves. Since joining the school, he has helped double pupil numbers from 700, including dramatically increasing pupil premium intake, so much so that the school is now seen as a national example of how grammars can broaden their reach. ‘It all comes down to community...
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Special Education Needs
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:
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most years
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Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| The Blue Coat School Birmingham | 2023 | 1 |
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