Stratford Girls' Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon

Coming up: an open evening on Wednesday 18 November 2026 at 6pm. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2026, pupils at Stratford Girls' Grammar School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 81.9, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 50 in Warwickshire and 47 across England.

99% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 52% in Warwickshire and 47% in England.

That is up from 80.6 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 1.07: pupils made well above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 22 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Physics, Biology and Chemistry.

Stratford Girls' Grammar School is a grammar school: places go to children who reach the required standard in its entrance test, and only then are the oversubscription criteria applied.

For September 2026 entry, 289 families put Stratford Girls' Grammar School as their first choice and 435 named it as one of their preferences, for 120 places offered. That is 2.4 first choices for every place. 177 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

Stratford Girls' Grammar School admits pupils through an entrance test, usually called the 11-plus. Children have to be registered for it in advance, normally in the spring or summer of Year 5; the test itself is usually sat in September of Year 6, and results come out in October, before the 31 October deadline for naming secondary schools.

Passing the test makes a child eligible rather than guaranteeing a place: when more children pass than there are places, Stratford Girls' Grammar School ranks them by the criteria in its admissions policy, which can include test score and distance. Check Warwickshire's admissions pages and the school's own policy for this year's registration deadline - a child who is not registered in time cannot sit the test.

Warwickshire has 5 state grammar schools in all, so a child who passes may have several selective schools to choose between.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Stratford Girls' Grammar School are Stratford Upon Avon School (0.3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.7); and King Edward VI School (0.7 miles, Outstanding, selective, Attainment 8 81.1).

Stratford Girls' Grammar School's 2026 results were higher than all 2 of them.

Of the 120 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 100% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 3% to a further education college.

Of the 112 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 67% went on to university or other higher education, 2% to apprenticeships and 21% into work. 61% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

3.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 26.1% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (43%), Asian (33%) and Mixed (9%).

In 2026, 11 pupils (1.3%) received SEN support and 0 (0%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

The nearest railway station is Stratford-upon-Avon Rail Station, about 680 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Stratford Girls Grammar School (adjacent), 50 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 276 crimes within a mile of the school, most often anti-social behaviour, violence and sexual offences and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Warwickshire (88), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Stratford Girls' Grammar School issued 1 suspension, 0.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Stratford Girls' Grammar School are Shottery St Andrew's CofE Primary School (0.2 miles), Holy Trinity CofE Primary School (0.2 miles), Stratford-Upon-Avon Primary School (0.5 miles) and Bishopton Primary School (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.