State grammar school
Wallington High School for Girls
Your guide to Year 7 entry in September 2027.
- Applicants
- Girls
- Entry point
- 11+, Year 7
- Places for 2027
- 210
- Funding
- State-funded
Woodcote Road, Wallington, Surrey, SM6 0PH
Application calendar
Key dates at a glance
For September 2027 entry.
Late SET registrations are not accepted. Already registered? Follow the venue and session details in your test invitation.
- Access-arrangement evidence
Request arrangements and submit the primary school’s supporting evidence.
ClosedAdd to calendar - SET registration
Closed at midnight at the end of 31 July 2026. No late registrations.
ClosedAdd to calendar - Selective Eligibility Test (SET)
Attend your assigned session. Any GLT looked-after or Pupil Premium evidence must reach admissions before your child sits the SET.
UpcomingAdd to calendar - Nonsuch and Wallington second-stage test
For invited candidates who meet the school’s SET standard.
UpcomingAdd to calendar - Council application (CAF)
Council application deadline and catchment residence reference date.
UpcomingAdd to calendar - National Offer DayUpcomingAdd to calendar
Before you apply
Entry requirements
Check the tests, your child’s age and how your address affects priority.
Who can apply
- Applicants
- Girls entering Year 7 in September 2027
- Normal birth dates
- 1 September 2015 – 31 August 2016
Outside the normal age group?
Provide supporting documentation at SET registration explaining the request. The school considers each child’s circumstances individually. The SET may only be taken once.
The entrance tests
- SET
- Multiple-choice English and maths. Meet the SET threshold to progress.
- Second stage (NWSSEE)
- Written maths and English, shared by Nonsuch and Wallington High School for Girls. Each paper has a qualifying standard.
Looked-after and eligible Pupil Premium girls can qualify with scores up to 20% below the SET threshold and each second-stage subject threshold, with evidence submitted before SET.
How is the final score calculated?
The total adds half the re-standardised SET score to the standardised NWSSEE maths and English scores. These three components carry equal weight. The ranked total is separate from the requirement to qualify in both second-stage subjects.
Where you live
100 score-ranked places are open irrespective of address. A separate catchment pool uses your child’s permanent home on 31 October 2026.
- Catchment
- Within a 6.7 km radius of the main entrance to the school building.
Sutton council verifies the distance using its GIS. Ask admissions to confirm your address if it is near the boundary.
Shared care or moving home?
For shared care, provide a joint declaration of the living arrangements. Use the home where your child spends most of the school week. If time is split equally, parents choose the address; without agreement, the policy uses the address registered with the doctor, taking all evidence into account.
Your home council checks residence. Tell it about any move and supply the evidence it requests. An address used only to gain priority may invalidate an application or offer.
Applying while living outside England?
Your child needs a linked address in the relevant local authority area and evidence that they will return before September 2027. It must not be an address of convenience. Contact your intended home council before applying. The SET must be taken at a Sutton test centre; there is no overseas testing.
Application route
How to apply
Test registration is separate from your home council’s secondary school application.
If your child already has an EHCP, use your council’s EHCP coordinator route and still register for the tests. While an EHCP assessment is unfinished, submit the ordinary council application.
Register for the SET
Complete one online SET registration for the participating schools by the July deadline. This also serves as the supplementary form.
Take the SET
Attend the assigned venue and session. Your test centre does not decide your school preferences.
Attend the second stage if invited
The school’s SET standard determines the invitation. Take both second-stage papers and read the school’s eligibility outcome.
Apply through your home council
Name Wallington High School for Girls on your CAF by 31 October in your genuine preference order. Passing the tests does not itself create a school application.
Receive your council’s offer
Your home council sends the outcome on 1 March 2027. Follow the response instructions in its offer letter.
Official application processCouncil application and EHCP routes
Places & priorities
How places are allocated
210 Year 7 places. The school applies the following priorities to eligible applicants.
The Pupil Premium and catchment figures are parts of the 210-place total. Looked-after and Pupil Premium applicants have the published 20% test-threshold allowance, subject to evidence.
The EHCP route comes first
Children whose EHCP names Wallington High School for Girls are allocated first if they meet the school’s selective standard. These placements reduce the remaining places.
Looked-after and previously looked-after girls
First priority after EHCP placements, subject to the ordinary or permitted lower test thresholds.
100 places irrespective of address
Allocated by entrance-test score, highest first.
Up to 35 Pupil Premium places
Allocated by entrance-test rank irrespective of address. Your child must be registered as Pupil Premium at primary school; qualifying evidence is due before SET.
Catchment places
The pool starts at up to 110 places and is reduced by EHCP, looked-after and Pupil Premium placements. Remaining catchment places go by highest test score, using residence on 31 October 2026.
Any unfilled places
Unused Pupil Premium places go first to the catchment allocation. Any remaining shortfall is filled by highest test score irrespective of address, up to 210 places.
Which looked-after children qualify?
This includes children in local-authority care or accommodation, and children who left care immediately through adoption, a child arrangements order or a special guardianship order. It also includes children adopted after state care outside England. The school requires evidence.
How are equal scores decided?
For the last place in the unrestricted, Pupil Premium or catchment pool, the nearer home takes priority. Sutton measures distance to the main entrance to the school building. If score and distance are equal, an independent person draws lots with at least two witnesses present.
Pupil Premium and later evidence
Ask your primary school to confirm your child’s Pupil Premium registration. Free-school-meal entitlement alone does not confirm the school’s Pupil Premium category.
If your child meets the selective standard, named Wallington High School for Girls on the CAF and later gains the relevant care or Pupil Premium status before the end of the summer term before entry, they may join that ranked waiting list after initial allocation. Eligible children whose evidence was late may also join after initial allocation. The school must receive the required evidence; this does not retrospectively provide the test-threshold allowance.
Family support
Documents & support
Keep the evidence for your child’s test arrangements and any priority claim.
Test invitation
Bring a printed invitation showing the candidate number, venue and session.
GLT looked-after or Pupil Premium form
Ask your primary school to complete and return the GLT form and supporting evidence before your child sits SET. Check that admissions received it. This deadline is relative to the sitting; no separate clock time is published.
SEND or medical arrangements
The request and evidence deadline was 12 June 2026. Your primary school SENCO must submit evidence through the dedicated link sent after registration. Contact SET SEND admissions about your child’s arrangements.
If your child is unwell on test day
Follow the unfit-to-sit instructions in your invitation before the assigned session starts. Supporting medical evidence is required.