Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School 11 plus: 2024 entry guide

Are you considering Lawrence Sheriff School for your child? We've collated all the information you need to know about 2024 entry to Year 7, including key dates, how to register your child and what's on the 11 plus exam.

About Lawrence Sheriff School

Lawrence Sheriff School is a boys' grammar school in Rugby which gained academy status in 2014. It has a mixed sixth form centre, and is one of three selective schools in Rugby, alongside Rugby High and Ashlawn.

The school has a history of excellent academic performance and emphasises an ethos of fairness, inclusivity, and respect. Lawrence Sheriff has a vertical tutoring policy, which allows students to progress according to performance rather than age – with some taking GCSEs in Year 9, or A Levels in Year 11.

• Address: Clifton Road, Rugby, CV21 3AG

• Local authority: Warwickshire County Council

• School type: boys' grammar

• Headteacher: Teresa Mpofu

• Number of pupils: 1,031

• National rank (Sunday Times Parent Power): 54

• A level results: 85.3% A*–B

• GCSE results: 76.8% 9/8/7

Key info for Year 7 admissions

• Admissions contact: [email protected]

• Number of places in Year 7: 150

• 11 plus registration opens: 9th May 2023

• 11 plus registration closes: 30th June 2023

• Exam date: 16th–18th September 2023

• Exam results: mid-October 2023

• Exam type: GL Assessment (West Midlands 11 plus)

• Common application form (CAF) deadline: 31st October 2023

• National school offer day: 1st March 2024

What is the pass mark for Lawrence Sheriff School?

After your child takes the exam, their scores are age-standardised and combined to give them a total score across both papers. Scores are ranked in order and the highest-scoring children are offered a place, with oversubscription criteria applied.

The school sets an automatic qualifying score and a minimum academic standard each year once the papers have been marked. This will depend on the size and performance of the year group.

Achieving a particular score doesn't guarantee a place at the school, as it is usually oversubscribed with qualified candidates. We always recommend researching the admission policies for your target schools, looking at their oversubscription criteria and their catchment area.

Lawrence Sheriff School oversubscription criteria

The planned admission number (PAN) for the school is 150. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) that names Lawrence Sheriff School are offered places first, as long as they achieve the required minimum academic standard or above. Places are then allocated to children in this order:

• Category 1: Looked-After or Previously Looked-After Children who achieve the automatic qualifying score or up to 20 marks below it.

• Category 2: Up to 30 places are offered to children living in the catchment area who are eligible for Free School Meals and who achieve the automatic qualifying score or up to 20 marks below it.

• Category 3: Up to 5 places are offered to children living in the catchment area who are eligible for Service Premium and who achieve the automatic qualifying score or up to 20 marks below it.

• Category 4: Children living in the catchment area who achieve the automatic qualifying score or above.

• Category 5: Children living in the priority circle who achieve the automatic qualifying score or above.

Those with the highest scores in each category are given highest priority for a place. In the case of children with the same score in any of these categories, the child living nearest the school in a straight line is given highest priority.

Lawrence Sheriff School catchment area and priority circle

Priority circle: a radius of 10.004 miles from the Rugby Water Tower.

Catchment area: Rugby plus the parishes of Dunchurch, Cawston, Thurlaston, Leamington Hastings, Birdingbury, Grandborough, Wolfhamcote, Willoughby, Binley Woods, Brinklow, Brandon and Bretford, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Bubbenhall, Wolston, Church Lawford, Long Lawford, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Princethorpe, Frankton, Marton, Bourton and Draycote, Churchover, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Combe Fields, Cosford, Easenhall, Harborough Magna, Kings Newnham, Little Lawford, Monks Kirby, Newton and Biggin, Pailton, Stretton-under-Fosse, Wibtoft, Willey, and Withybrook.

You'll need to submit evidence to prove that your child lives within the catchment area by the end of December 2023.

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