MAMarling School 11+ admissions

• Gloucestershire Grammar Schools 11 Plus

  Formal consortium · GL Assessment for September 2027 entry. This is the 2027 entry cohort; the provider changes to Future Stories Community Enterprise (FSCE) for September 2028 entry. · A shared two-paper multiple-choice test. One paper assesses verbal skills including comprehension, vocabulary and verbal reasoning; the other assesses non-verbal reasoning and mathematics. The grammar schools manage registration and test administration.

  Each grammar school the family opted to share results with sends its own confirmation of whether the child achieved that school’s qualifying score. Qualification alone is not an offer; families must also list schools on the home local-authority application.

  Provider change for September 2028 entry

  For September 2028 entry, Gloucestershire's seven grammar schools move from GL Assessment to FSCE. Pate's says registration opens at noon on 8 February 2027 and closes at noon on 19 March 2027, with the test on 3 July 2027 in Year 5. Its 2028 guidance describes three papers covering English, maths and primary foundation subjects. These dates and papers are for the next cohort, not the 2026 GL test for September 2027 entry.

  Pate's 2028-entry Gloucestershire test guidance
  Check the official test registration page

Eligibility

Boys in the correct chronological cohort for Year 7 who meet the qualifying standard in the Entrance Test.

Score policy

The Entrance Test produces standardised scores and a rank order. The qualifying standard is not a fixed pass mark and reflects the cohort's rank order.

Oversubscription

Candidates with an EHCP naming Marling who have met the Qualifying Standard are admitted first, reducing the admission number. If qualifying applications exceed the remaining places, the order is: looked-after or previously looked-after children, including qualifying internationally adopted children, who meet the Qualifying Standard; Pupil Premium candidates who meet it; then other qualifying candidates by Entrance Test rank. For equal ranks, attendance at a Cotswold Beacon Academy Trust primary school through at least the December break of Year 6 takes priority; remaining ties are ranked by straight-line distance from the candidate’s home to the School, then by independently supervised random allocation.

Registration

GIAS does not publish the current test registration URL.

Use the admissions summary and current policy to check any priority-area rules. This page does not provide an address eligibility check for this school.

DfE preferences and offers at National Offer Day. A child can appear at several schools or through more than one recorded route at the same school. These figures describe past demand and do not predict an offer.

School identifiers are joined across documented predecessor links. Missing and suppressed values stay unpublished. Latest dataset: September 2026 entry. Checked 2026-10-24.

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• Department for Education: School level secondary and primary applications and offers 2026 (AppsandOffers_2026_SchoolLevel29062026.csv)
• Department for Education: Get Information about Schools all establishments CSV (edubasealldata20261001.csv)
• Department for Education: Get Information about Schools establishment links CSV (links_edubasealldata20261001.csv)

These subjects are verified for the linked shared assessment route. GIAS does not publish the current assessed subjects.

• Verbal skills (comprehension, vocabulary and verbal reasoning)
• Non-verbal reasoning
• Mathematics

1. 1. Marling School Entrance Test

   The policy requires boys in the correct chronological cohort to take the school-organised Entrance Test. The policy says it is scheduled in the autumn term and that the exact date is announced on the school website. The Gloucestershire test dates on this page show the 2027-entry sitting. The 2027 policy does not specify test subjects or components.

Registration opens

GIAS does not publish the current registration opening date.

Registration deadline

GIAS does not publish the current registration deadline.

Test date

GIAS does not publish the current test dates.

Published CAF date

GIAS does not publish the current CAF deadline.

National Offer Day

GIAS does not publish the current offer date.

Shared assessment dates are in the 11+ dates calendar. To decide where this school goes on the application form, use the school application order planner.

Marling School is a state-funded school, so there is no tuition fee for a Year 7 place. Uniform and optional activities can have separate costs. Check the Department for Education school record and the GOV.UK guide to state schools for the funding rule. The school can confirm current uniform and activity costs.

Inspection outcomes are maintained separately and are not present in current GIAS downloads.

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1. Open state-funded school fields CSV

   Department for Education. Accessed 21 October 2026. GIAS register snapshot on 20 October 2026.

2. Open state-funded school fields CSV, 24 October 2026

   Department for Education. Accessed 24 October 2026. GIAS register snapshot on 24 October 2026.

3. Grammar schools: entrance test information for September 2027

   Gloucestershire County Council. Accessed 26 August 2026. September 2027 entry.

4. Marling School Admissions Policy 2027 Entry

   Marling School. Accessed 24 October 2026. September 2027 entry.

5. ONS Postcode Directory May 2026 school-postcode centroid extract

   Office for National Statistics. Accessed 21 October 2026. ONS Postcode Directory, May 2026; candidate-school postcodes queried 21 October 2026.

6. Grammar schools

   Gloucestershire County Council. Accessed 24 October 2026. September 2027 entry.

7. Admissions for September 2027

   Ribston Hall High School. Accessed 23 October 2026. September 2027 entry.

8. Admissions for September 2027

   Ribston Hall High School. Accessed 24 October 2026. September 2027 entry.