Wallington High School for Girls A GSG School
- Wallington High School for Girls
Woodcote Road
Wallington
Surrey
SM6 0PH - Head: Ms T O’Brien
- T 020 8647 2380
- F 020 8647 2270
- E [email protected]
- W www.wallington….sutton.sch.uk/
- A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Sutton
- Pupils: 1,550; sixth formers: 500
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 1 Short inspection 9th October 2019
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
While it would be easy to see the excellent results of this high flying grammar as the inevitable consequence of admissions process – clever in, clever out – the school is rightfully proud of its value added’scores. Progress levels in sixth form particularly strong. School insists it’s no exam factory, with any pressure coming from the girls themselves or their (often very aspirational) parents – pupils concur. A school with a strong sense of authenticity, enthusiasm and amiability that gives an impression of ...
What the school says...
Entrance examinations consist of: 11 Verbal and maths. No interview. At sixteen, average points score of 46 over the best 8 GCSEs. B or above for AS/2 subjects .
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since May 2023, Tracey O’ Brien. She read geography at the LSE and has been a school leader in London for more than 15 years, taking responsibility for all aspects of school leadership, including improving teaching and learning, delivering CPD, planning school self-review and evaluation and leading on behaviour and inclusion. She has worked for London Challenge, supporting other schools, and became the director of one of the early National Teaching Schools. She has written two education books on school self-review and school inspection.
Entrance
Following early September deadline for applications, anything north of 2,500 hopefuls sit the SET test (the same test for all five grammars in Sutton) either here or at Nonsuch. The 900-1,000 who get through are then invited to sit the second stage test at Nonsuch and the 800 who survive this...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Students are identified for SEN on entry to the school through their entrance exam, CATs tests and primary school information. Staff do regular reviews and inform the SENCO as necessary. The monitoring is specific to the learning and teaching of students with SEN. Students identified with SEN have IEPs and meet regularly with the Year Leader. Any teaching assistants within the school provide excellent support for the students. The school works well with outside agencies. Subject staff meet regularly and are updated on the specific needs of the students they are teaching. Nov 09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| 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
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| St David's School | 2024 | 2 |
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