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Wirral 11+ pass marks and cut-off history

Facts checked 19 October 2026By ExamKind Editorial Team

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In short

The 4Wirral: School countChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Calday Grange Grammar School.The source says: Your child will sit the test at one of the four Wirral grammar schools.View the official source Wirral Consortium grammar schools do not publish a pass mark as a number. Children who reach the required score are said to have reached the grammar school standard, and the required score itself is not printed in the published materials we checked. So this page cannot show a yearly pass mark for the Wirral consortium. It shows instead what the schools have published about where their offers stopped.

School cut-offs

The latest lowest score and furthest distance each school offered places to, with the entry year. Schools use their own admission rules and sometimes their own score scales, so compare each school with its own past years rather than with other schools.

Wirral grammar schools: latest cut-offs
SchoolLowest score offeredFurthest distance offered
Calday Grange Grammar SchoolNot published14.68 milesFurthest distance offered at Calday Grange Grammar SchoolChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Wirral Council.The source says: For entry in 2026, the last pupil offered a place was in Category 5 (14.680 miles)View the official source2026 entry
West Kirby Grammar School238Lowest score offered at West Kirby Grammar SchoolChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Wirral Council.The source says: The last pupil offered a place under Category 7 (standardised score) achieved a score of 238View the official source2026 entry6.095 milesFurthest distance offered at West Kirby Grammar SchoolChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Wirral Council.The source says: For entry in September 2026, the last pupil offered a place under Category 6 (distance) lived 6.095 miles from the school.View the official source2026 entry

4 other schools have no published cut-off that we have checked yet. Each school's page shows what it publishes.

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How the standard works

The test is run by Wirral Council (Mainstream Admissions team) on behalf of the four schools; papers provided by Quest AssessmentsWirral: Test run byChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Wirral Council.The source says: The governing bodies of Calday Grange Grammar School, West Kirby Grammar School, Wirral Grammar School for Boys and Wirral Grammar School for Girls have reached an agreement with the authority on how their admission procedures will work. If parents want their children to be considered for places at these schools, Wirral Local Authority will assess these children on behalf of the school.View the official source. Two multiple-choice papers of about 50 minutes each: paper one is verbal reasoning, and paper two is maths and non-verbal reasoning.Wirral grammar schools consortium 11+ assessment: PapersChecked 12 Oct 2026 against Calday Grange Grammar School.The source says: Paper one: assesses verbal reasoning Paper two: assesses mathematics and non-verbal reasoningView the official source Each score is age-standardised, and the scores are added together into one total. Children who reach the required total are treated as having reached the grammar school standard. Reaching it is the first step, not a place: each school then fills its places under its own oversubscription rules. The council's registration leaflet notes that Wirral Grammar School for Boys has a lower standard for children from low-income families on free school meals.

Priority for children on free school meals differs by school. All four non-Catholic grammar schools give some priority to FSM children who reach the standard; the number of places is set in each school's policy (Calday up to 15, West Kirby up to 18 per the council policy booklet).Wirral 2027 entry: Pp priorityChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Wirral Council.The source says: All Wirral non-Catholic grammar schools give some priority to ... children who get low income based Free School Meals at the ... time of applying in Autumn 2026. Children must still reach the ... standard for admission. Wirral Grammar School for Boys has a ... lower standard for these children.View the official source

A new test provider

The four non-faith schools moved to a new test provider (Quest Assessments) for the September 2026 test. For this first year the style, format, subjects and relative weightings stayed the same, and the standard needed to pass did not changeWirral 2027 entry: Provider changeChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Calday Grange Grammar School.The source says: we have moved to a new test provider ... The test will now be delivered through a different provider. However, for this first year, we have taken the decision to retain the same overall style and format of the test, including the areas assessed and their relative weightingsView the official source. Even with the standard unchanged, any single year's outcome is history, not a forecast.

What the schools publish

Some schools report the last place they offered, in different ways:

  • West Kirby Grammar School offered its last place under its standardised score category at a score of 238west-kirby-grammar-school-2026-last-score-offered: ValueChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Wirral Council.The source says: The last pupil offered a place under Category 7 (standardised score) achieved a score of 238View the official source for September 2026 entry.
  • Calday Grange Grammar School's last place for September 2026 entry went under its distance category, at 14.68 milescalday-grange-grammar-school-2026-last-distance: ValueChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Wirral Council.The source says: For entry in 2026, the last pupil offered a place was in Category 5 (14.680 miles)View the official source.
  • Upton Hall School FCJ, a girls' school that sets its own entrance examination, has published that girls reaching Not knownUpton Hall School FCJ 2023 entry: ValueNot known: no official source states this.The source says: An Admissions Committee of the Academy Trust will determine admission to the school for those girls who have achieved 236 in the Entrance Examination consisting of two closed NFER tests in Verbal Reasoning.View the official source were considered by its admissions committee for September 2023 entry.

These figures come from different rules and different tests, so they cannot be lined up against each other.

If your child does not reach the standard

Name at least one grammar school on your council form; if your child does not reach the standard, the grammar school preferences are withdrawnWirral: If the grammar school standard is not reachedChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Wirral Council.The source says: Parents should include at least one grammar school when they apply for a school place. If a child does not meet the grammar school standard, their preference for a grammar school will be withdrawn.View the official source. A child who did not reach the standard cannot join a grammar school's waiting listWirral: Grammar waiting listChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Wirral Council.The source says: Children cannot be added to the waiting list for a grammar school if the child did not reach the standard for entry, details of how to appeal will be on the offer email/letter.View the official source. The test can be taken only once, so there is no re-sit.

See the Wirral results page, the Wirral dates page and the Wirral 11+ guide. For help reading a standardised score, use the 11+ score converter.