All schools
51 of 163 schools indexed so far.
Altrincham Grammar School for Boys
Altrincham, Greater Manchester · North West
Shares its published qualifying score exactly with Trafford's reputedly least-selective grammar — but council data shows its real cutoff for out-of-area applicants runs well above that shared floor.
Altrincham Grammar School for Girls
Altrincham, Greater Manchester · North West
Same 334/324 score as Altrincham Boys and Urmston, but its own catchment is a plain 8-mile radius rather than a defined postcode list.
Aylesbury High School
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire · South East
The standard Buckinghamshire 121 threshold, allocated by catchment and distance rather than a strict score-rank — not the county's most selective girls' grammar.
Bournemouth School
Bournemouth, Dorset · South West
One of four schools sharing 'the Consortium' test — genuinely unresolved whether it's superselective, since none of the four publishes a score and BCP has an unusually high overall share of grammar places.
Bournemouth School for Girls
Bournemouth, Dorset · South West
Reserves 100 of its 180 places purely for the highest scorers regardless of catchment — a more open, competitive design than its own Consortium partner Poole Grammar uses.
Chelmsford County High School for Girls
Chelmsford, Essex · East of England
Not part of the CSSE consortium at all — it left to run its own three-part test through a different provider, on a scoring scale that isn't comparable to its neighbours'.
Churston Ferrers Grammar School Academy
Brixham, Devon · South West
Fully selective, but not 'highest score wins' — a large share of places go by a 'Social Justice Priority' category ahead of higher-scoring children outside it.
Colchester County High School for Girls
Colchester, Essex · East of England
Introduced a 25-mile priority area from September 2025 entry that didn't exist before — and its own 2025 results directly contradict DfE on whether Progress 8 exists for that year at all.
Colchester Royal Grammar School
Colchester, Essex · East of England
Its actual last-place-offered score has run second-highest of Essex's ten selective schools two years running — a direct score comparison, not just reputation.
Colyton Grammar School
Colyton, Devon · South West
Devon's only fully selective state school — which makes 'superselective' genuinely unanswerable here: there's no in-county peer or published score table to compare it against.
Dartford Grammar School
Dartford, Kent · South East
Requires most of its intake to score 40 points above Kent's standard grammar threshold — one of the county's genuinely higher bars, not just a reputation.
Dartford Grammar School for Girls
Dartford, Kent · South East
Its brother school requires 40 points above Kent's standard threshold — this school requires none at all, just the ordinary county-wide pass.
Denmark Road High School
Gloucester, Gloucestershire · South West
Keeps sibling priority and a soft Gloucester-postcode preference that Pate's doesn't have — a gentler version of the same Gloucestershire consortium mechanism.
Devonport High School for Boys
Plymouth, Devon · South West
Its own admissions policy sets the qualifying mark to be exactly whatever the 180th-ranked candidate scores — designed to fill the school, not to filter far beyond it.
Devonport High School for Girls
Plymouth, Devon · South West
Shares its entrance test with Plymouth's other two grammar schools, but not its admissions authority, PAN, or criteria — three separate legal decision-makers on one shared exam.
Invicta Grammar School
Maidstone, Kent · South East
States directly that it is 'not a super-selective school' — and three years of its own admissions arrangements back that up structurally.
King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
Chelmsford, Essex · East of England
The confirmed highest last-place-offered score of any CSSE school, two years running — not reputation, actual FOI-disclosed council data.
Loreto Grammar School
Altrincham, Greater Manchester · North West
Faith status decides admission before the test score does — and unlike Altrincham Boys' or Urmston, it doesn't publish a numeric score at all.
Maidstone Grammar School
Maidstone, Kent · South East
No school-specific bar above Kent's standard threshold — an internal 360+ priority band only governs how roughly half its intake is ordered, not who gets in at all.
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls
Maidstone, Kent · South East
Quietly dropped its own score-ranked admissions tier last year — 30 of 210 places used to go purely by Kent Test score, until a 2024-25 consultation removed it.
Marling School
Stroud, Gloucestershire · South West
No enlarged Qualifying Group, no sibling priority — the same lean rank-order mechanism as most of the Gloucestershire consortium, minus Pate's extra layer of selectivity.
Parkstone Grammar School
Poole, Dorset · South West
One of four BCP schools sharing a single test — but its own oversubscription criteria put a Poole postcode ahead of a higher test score for most of its places.
Pate's Grammar School
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire · South West
No sibling priority at all — 'purely down to the test' — and reputed to need a noticeably higher score than Gloucestershire's six other consortium grammars.
Plymouth High School for Girls
Plymouth, Devon · South West
Genuinely pools its ranking with Devonport High School for Girls across a combined 278 places — a shared admissions system found nowhere else in this index so far.
Poole Grammar School
Poole, Dorset · South West
Shares one test — 'the Consortium' — with all three other BCP grammar schools, none of which publishes a qualifying score for any of them.
Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
Barnet, Greater London · London
Pure rank order on a combined test score, no catchment, no sibling priority — and even its own published place count doesn't agree with itself.
Ribston Hall High School
Gloucester, Gloucestershire · South West
No published Qualifying Group beyond its own admission number — like most of the Gloucestershire consortium, but structurally lighter than Pate's.
Saint Ambrose College
Altrincham, Greater Manchester · North West
Clearing its own entrance score only makes you eligible — a ten-tier Catholic faith hierarchy, not exam rank, then decides who actually gets in.
Sale Grammar School
Sale, Greater Manchester · North West
Same 334 threshold as its consortium partners, but no separate lower score for Pupil Premium applicants — 'GL only provide one standardised score for Sale Grammar School.'
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School
Canterbury, Kent · South East
No score-banded priority tier, no radius, unlike its similarly-named neighbour — Kent County Council runs its admissions on the standard distance-only model.
Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys
Canterbury, Kent · South East
Builds a +20-point score tier directly into its oversubscription policy — a genuine superselective structure, not just a reputation.
Sir Thomas Rich's School
Gloucester, Gloucestershire · South West
Started life in 1668 as a residential Blue Coat charity school for 20 poor boys — boarding ended in 1882, when the dormitories became classrooms.
Southend High School for Boys
Southend-on-Sea, Essex · East of England
83% of places go at essentially the CSSE consortium floor — only the small out-of-catchment allowance requires a genuinely high score.
Southend High School for Girls
Southend-on-Sea, Essex · East of England
By CSSE's own comparison data, the least score-selective of the consortium's grammar schools — its cutoffs sit at or near the floor on both sides of its catchment.
Stretford Grammar School
Stretford, Greater Manchester · North West
The only Trafford grammar that never converted to academy status — which is also why its DfE reference number looks decades older than its neighbours'.
Stroud High School
Stroud, Gloucestershire · South West
One undifferentiated county-wide rank order for all 150 places — no two-tier local/national split like Pate's, and no sibling priority either.
The Crypt School
Gloucester, Gloucestershire · South West
Same Gloucestershire consortium as Pate's, but without the machinery that makes Pate's harder to get into — no per-paper minimums, no quantified top-N group, no national quota.
The Henrietta Barnett School
Hampstead Garden Suburb, Greater London · London
No catchment, no fixed pass mark — just a two-round test and a rank order, for one of England's most oversubscribed state schools.
The Judd School
Tonbridge, Kent · South East
No stated policy sets a bar above Kent's threshold — but the school's own published outcomes show the actual cutoff running 60-70 points above it, and rising.
The Norton Knatchbull School
Ashford, Kent · South East
Ranks by distance, not score, when oversubscribed — the same structural marker of a non-superselective grammar seen elsewhere in Kent.
The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire · South East
One of England's oldest schools (1562), using the same standard Buckinghamshire 121 threshold as every other county grammar — selectivity here is about oversubscription, not a higher published bar.
The Skinners' School
Tunbridge Wells, Kent · South East
Requires 40 points above Kent's standard threshold for most places — genuinely superselective, but not through any reserved quota for the Skinners' Company's own Freemen, which doesn't exist here.
Tonbridge Grammar School
Tonbridge, Kent · South East
Has run an IB-only sixth form since 2012 — no A-levels to compare at all, until a funding-driven switch starting September 2026.
Torquay Boys' Grammar School
Torquay, Devon · South West
No catchment, no sibling priority, pure rank order — but only about 1.8 applications per place, which is a mild oversubscription ratio by this index's own benchmark for calling a school superselective.
Torquay Girls' Grammar School
Torquay, Devon · South West
Its own admissions criteria have visibly narrowed year over year — catchment priority, then sibling priority, then staff-child priority, each dropped in a successive policy.
Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School
Tunbridge Wells, Kent · South East
Almost all of its places go by home-to-school distance, not score — the opposite mechanism from Kent's recognised superselectives.
Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys
Tunbridge Wells, Kent · South East
The school itself says its Kent Test score 'is not relevant for admission' beyond qualifying — a genuine Community school where Kent County Council, not the school, is the admissions authority.
Urmston Grammar Academy
Urmston, Greater Manchester · North West
Same published score as Altrincham Boys, but the council's own outcomes data shows the two schools' realized cutoffs pull apart once you look past the shared floor.
Weald of Kent Grammar School
Tonbridge, Kent · South East
Just abolished its own catchment area entirely — the current admissions cycle ranks purely by distance, with no postcode zone at all.
Westcliff High School for Boys
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex · East of England
One of the more accessible CSSE schools for local boys, but its out-of-catchment cutoff is the second-highest in the whole consortium.
Westcliff High School for Girls
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex · East of England
Barely clears the consortium floor for local applicants, but the out-of-catchment cutoff runs 40 points higher — two very different schools depending on your postcode.