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Thousands of practice questions and up to 6 mock papers, all in the exact Hulme Grammar School 11+ format, on one simple plan. It starts with a free diagnostic.
Hulme Grammar School
Hulme Grammar School is a co-educational independent day school in Oldham, Greater Manchester, offering Year 7 entry through a single-stage 11+ process. The admissions process includes a GL Assessment exam and an interview stage. For the 2026/27 academic year, the annual fees for the Senior School are £18,624, which includes VAT.
If you remember this as two schools, or as Oldham Hulme, it is now one school under one name. Hulme Grammar School took its present name in 2023 and admitted its first co-educational Year 7 the same September, having taught boys and girls separately for most of its history. It is an independent day school for three to eighteen, with the senior school on Chamber Road in Oldham and the pre-prep and prep a short way off at Thornycroft House. There are around 580 pupils.
The school traces itself to 1611 and a single room of local Pennine stone, which industrial Oldham eventually grew around and closed. The present school opened on Chamber Road on 1 May 1895 to forty-eight boys and twenty-eight girls, taught in separate classrooms in the same building, paid for out of the William Hulme Trust after a local solicitor went and asked for the money. It was a direct grant grammar school until 1976. In 1940 it took in a group of evacuees from Guernsey who stayed five years and were known in school as the Guernsey Boys.
A child joining at eleven goes into one of three forms and one of four houses named after benefactors, chasing the Needham Trophy. The Head of Year 7 also carries Years 8 and 9, so the same person follows a child from eleven to fourteen. The day starts at a quarter to nine, runs five periods with a full hour for lunch, and ends at a quarter to four. Entry is by two papers, one English and one combining maths with non-verbal reasoning, then an interview for stronger candidates. There is a swimming pool on site and a forest school. It suits a child who wants a school that has been there a long time and makes no fuss about it.
Key facts
Annual fees
Senior School (Years 7-11) £18,624 per year for 2026/27, including VAT. The 2025/26 rate was £14,922 per year plus VAT. The school states fees are reviewed annually in the Spring term. No registration fee or deposit is published.
Admissions
Admissions contact
admissions@hulmegrammar.org
Admissions phone
0161 624 4497
Registration form
https://hulmegrammar.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/senior-application-form-1.docx
Sibling policy
What this school tests
Year 7 Entrance Examination
English
- Reading Comprehension - Comparison
- Reading Comprehension - Evaluation
- Reading Comprehension - Grammar and punctuation
- Reading Comprehension - Inference and Deduction
- Reading Comprehension - Information Retrieval
- Reading Comprehension - Language Techniques and Imagery
- Reading Comprehension - Sentence-level Comprehension
- Reading Comprehension - Sequencing
- Reading Comprehension - Structure, Form, Voice and Tone
- Reading Comprehension - Summarising
- Reading Comprehension - Text Classification and Purpose
- Reading Comprehension - Types of Words and Phrases
- Reading Comprehension - Word Meaning / Choice
- Sentence Completion
- Spelling
- Punctuation
Maths
- Algebra
- Angles and Degrees
- BIDMAS
- Coordinate Grids
- Estimation and Rounding
- Factors and Multiples
- Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
- Magic squares
- Measurement
- Money
- Number and Place Value
- Number Walls
- Operations
- Perimeter, Area and Volume
- Position and Direction
- Properties of Shapes
- Ratio and Proportion
- Reflection, Rotation and Symmetry
- Sequences
- Special Numbers
- Speed, Distance and Time
- Statistics
- Time
Non-verbal Reasoning
- Extended Figure Series
- Figure Analogies
- Figure Matrices
- Figure Operations
- Figure Series
- Grid Matrices
- Horizontal Codes
- Most Like Three Figures
- Most Like Two Figures
- Odd Figure Out
- Star Matrices
- Triangle Matrices
- Triangle Series
- Vertical Codes
Catchment area
Selection review and safety net
Previous exam results
GCSE results
2025: 94% of grades at 9-4 overall, and 85% at 9-5 across Art, Biology, Computer Science, English Language, English Literature, Food, Physics, Religious Studies and Spanish. The school publishes no finer grade breakdown (school's own published figures).
A-level results
2025: 61% of grades at A*-B overall, with 100% at A*-B in Art and Design, Further Maths, Religious Studies and Spanish. The school publishes no A* or A*-A figure (school's own published figures).
Frequently asked questions
What exam board does Hulme Grammar School use for the 11+?
Hulme Grammar School uses GL Assessment for its 11+ entrance examination.
Does Hulme Grammar School interview candidates as part of the 11+?
Yes, there is an interview stage as part of the Year 7 admissions process at Hulme Grammar School.
Is Hulme Grammar School co-educational or single-sex?
Hulme Grammar School is a co-educational (mixed) school, having admitted its first co-educational Year 7 cohort in September 2023.
What are the annual fees for Hulme Grammar School?
For the 2026/27 academic year, Senior School fees are £18,624 per year, including VAT. Fees are reviewed annually in the Spring term.
What is the website for Hulme Grammar School?
The official website for the school is https://hulmegrammar.org/.
Location
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