Sutton Grammar School, Sutton

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, tennis, basketball, badminton, choir, orchestra, chess, coding, robotics and STEM.

Coming up: an open evening on Wednesday 11 November 2026 and an open evening on Thursday 12 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2026, pupils at Sutton Grammar School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 82.6, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 62.3 in Sutton and 47 across England.

100% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 72% in Sutton and 47% in England.

That is up from 80.3 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 1.16: 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 19 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

Sutton 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, 128 families put Sutton Grammar School as their first choice and 956 named it as one of their preferences, for 160 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 70 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

Sutton Grammar School admits pupils through an entrance test - in Sutton, the Selective Eligibility Test (SET). 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, Sutton Grammar School ranks them by the criteria in its admissions policy, which can include test score and distance. Check Sutton'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.

Sutton 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 Sutton Grammar School are Greenshaw High School (0.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 56.5); St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls (0.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 54.4); Overton Grange School (0.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.3); and Carshalton High School for Girls (0.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 51.7).

Sutton Grammar School's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Of the 135 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 99% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 2% to a further education college.

Of the 180 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 82% went on to university or other higher education, 1% to apprenticeships and 8% into work. 62% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 36% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Asian (37%), Mixed (29%) and White British (13%).

In 2026, 60 pupils (5.7%) received SEN support and 11 (1%) 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 Sutton Station, about 600 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

19 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Benhill Wood Road (->w), 180 metres away.

In 2024/25, Sutton Grammar School issued 22 suspensions, 2.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Sutton Grammar School are Manor Park Primary Academy (0.1 miles), Robin Hood Junior School (0.3 miles), Robin Hood Infants' School (0.5 miles) and All Saints Benhilton CofE Primary School (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.