Wallington County Grammar School

Academy converter·Secondary school Wallington, Sutton·SM6 7PH
Composite score
97.1
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#34
National rank
#14
In London
#5
In Sutton
Top 1%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
77.7
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
99%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
100%
% EBacc grade 5+
63%
EBacc average points score
7.25

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
43%
165 first choices, 170 places
First choices per place
0.97
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
1,027
any preference, for 170 places
Applications from another council area
69%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.35
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7720221.0920230.5920240.6220250.972026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Wallington County Grammar School yet. Sutton does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,117
Gender
Boys
Admissions
Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
8.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
31.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
3.7%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
0.3%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.1%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
6.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,128
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
100%
150 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
100%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Wallington County Grammar School is a boys' secondary school serving Wallington, Sutton, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 1,117 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 77.7, well above the national average of 46. Results have held broadly steady on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 1% of secondary schools in England.

99% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 100% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 43% of the families who made Wallington County Grammar School their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 100% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 4.1%. There are about 17.4 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 8% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Wallington County Grammar School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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