Wirral Grammar School for Girls
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Wirral
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
7.754 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wirral Grammar School for Girls is a secondary school in Wirral for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 6 December 2022. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Wirral Grammar School for Girls catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 7.754 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 the last child offered a Year 7 place lived 7.754 miles away, the 3rd longest of 10 Wirral secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance.
- In 2024/25, 92% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 69.3 (England 46).
- For Year 7 2026 there were 199 first-choice applications for 178 offers; 177 offers went to first-choice families and 22 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 10.3% of pupils, against a middle figure of 42.9% across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Wirral.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wirral schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Heath Road, Bebington, Wirral, CH63 3AF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 1,224 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 6 December 2022
Strengths
- “At Wirral Grammar School for Girls, pupils and students thrive.”
- “They feel an immense sense of pride in belonging to a warm and welcoming school community.”
- “Pupils and students embrace the high expectations that leaders have of them, and they flourish both personally and academically.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 92% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 69.3 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B+ | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 199 first-preference applications, 178 offers in total, 177 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Wirral.
- Wirral Grammar School for Boys 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Bebington 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Plessington Catholic College 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Prenton High School for Girls 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- South Wirral High School 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Birkenhead Park School 3.1 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Woodchurch High School 3.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Anselm's College 3.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published