Camp Hill Boys 11 Plus Tuition: One to One, Online

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys is a selective grammar school in Kings Heath, Birmingham, that selects boys for Year 7 by ability: a boy must reach the qualifying score in the West Midlands Grammar Schools Entrance Test, a GL Assessment test arranged by the King Edward VI Foundation, and places are then offered by category. For September 2027 entry the Admission Number is 120, the qualifying score 205 and the priority score 224.

The sitting for September 2027 entry took place on Saturday 12 September 2026, and registration for it closed at 4pm on Friday 26 June 2026. This page is for the family of a boy who sat in 2026, with a preference-form closing date of 31 October 2026, and for the family of a younger boy who will sit in a later year. The full guide to the school's admissions covers the school itself; this page covers the routes in, the test and how preparation works.

Which route into Camp Hill Boys is your son on, and what does his score have to do?

Camp Hill Boys' September 2027 admission policy says its applicants “are required to sit an entrance test and must achieve the qualifying score in order to be eligible for admission to the school”. Where eligible applications exceed the places available, it offers places in five categories, in order. Some categories rank boys by test score and some by distance, so the same mark does different work depending on where a boy lives and whether he attracts the Pupil Premium. The Foundation's results and offers page gives the qualifying score and the priority score for 2027 entry as 205 and 224, and the policy says both are published before the test. The Admission Number of 120 reduces for other applicants where the school is named on a child's Education, Health and Care Plan.

A boy who lives in a catchment ward

The catchment is a list of Birmingham electoral wards, among them Moseley, Stirchley, Sparkhill and Brandwood & Kings Heath; the policy points families to the council's ward lookup. Category 4 is “Applicants who achieve the priority score and live within the school catchment area”. It gives priority to a boy with an older sibling at the school and then ranks by distance, measured in a straight line to the school's front gates. Once a boy has the priority score, a higher mark does not lift him past another boy in this category, so his target is a threshold: 224 for 2027 entry. Reaching it was not always enough, as the table below shows: for 2025 entry the school could not offer a place to every boy in category 4. A catchment boy who reaches only the qualifying score competes in category 5, on test score.

A boy who lives outside the catchment wards

Category 4 is closed to him whatever his score. Unless he is looked after or attracts the Pupil Premium, he is considered in category 5, which the policy ranks “by test score”, then by a sibling at the school, then by distance. Every mark counts in that ranking, and the qualifying score of 205 for 2027 entry is the entry point, not the target. The Foundation's table records the March figure in this category at 254 for 2026 entry and 260 for 2024 entry.

A boy who attracts the Pupil Premium

The policy counts a child as attracting the Pupil Premium if he meets the Government's criteria and his primary school receives Pupil Premium funding for him at the time of the test. Category 2 (living in the catchment, qualifying score reached) ranks by distance. Category 3 (living outside it) opens on a condition: if fewer than 25% of places have been offered in category 2, offers go to category 3 until a total of 25% of places have been offered, ranked by test score; if 25% or more have been offered in category 2, the policy makes no offers from category 3. The Foundation adds that Pupil Premium applicants must still reach the qualifying score, that “extra marks are not awarded” to them, that a child who becomes registered for Pupil Premium after the test date of 12 September 2026 is not considered for these places, and that pupils eligible only under expanded free school meals do not attract the Pupil Premium. The policy asks for the eligibility form before the day of the test.

Looked-after and previously looked-after boys who reach the qualifying score are in category 1, ranked by test score and then distance. The policy also counts an older sibling at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls as a sibling claim at the boys' school. For a preparation plan built around a boy's route, a free consultation is the place to start.

What the Foundation's results table records for Camp Hill Boys, 2023 to 2026 entry

For each grammar school the Foundation publishes the score, or the distance, required for entry in each category. It describes the figures as “the scores required for entry on national offer day in March”, with the figure “offered by September after waiting list offers” in brackets. The Camp Hill Boys rows for the four entry years the Foundation lists are below, using the category numbers of the school's policy.

Category 5 is the one that tracks scores

For 2026 entry the March figure was 254, and 242 by September, a fall of 12 points (254 − 242). For 2024 entry it was 260, falling to 250, a fall of 10 points (260 − 250). For 2023 entry the Foundation records no offers in March and 254 by September, and for 2025 entry no offers at all, for the reason below. It also says a child who reached the qualifying score is placed automatically on the waiting list for any school listed above the one he was offered.

Category 4 ran out of places for 2025 entry

For 2025 entry the Foundation records the last category 4 offer at 5698 metres in March and 6186 metres by September, 488 metres further out (6186 − 5698). Its footnote says the school was “unable to offer all applicants within category 4 a place”, so no category 5 offers followed. For 2023 entry the last child offered a category 4 place in March had the priority score of 224 and lived 5856 metres from the school, and by September every category 4 applicant had an offer. For 2026 and 2024 entry the Foundation records every category 4 applicant offered. A catchment boy with the priority score was therefore offered a place in the three entry years other than 2025 (in 2023 by September); in 2025 the outcome depended on his distance.

Same test, different bar

One test serves the 19 grammar schools in the region, but each school's row is its own. For the equivalent general category the Foundation records the March figure for 2026 entry at 217 at King Edward VI Aston School and 216 at King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, against 254 at Camp Hill Boys. Our King Edward VI Birmingham 11+ overview sets out the consortium and its other schools. The table records four past entry years; it is not a forecast for 2027 or later entry. For a boy aiming at a particular category, a free consultation is the place to discuss a preparation plan.

What the two papers ask of a boy, and what each rule changes in preparation

The Foundation says candidates sit two papers, each approximately 60 minutes including time for instructions and example questions; the West Midlands Grammar Schools site gives 50-60 minutes. Each paper is divided into individually timed sections testing English comprehension, verbal reasoning, mathematics and non-verbal and spatial reasoning, which the familiarisation guide puts as “divided into four types of questions”. Results are weighted 50% to English and verbal reasoning, 25% to non-verbal reasoning and 25% to mathematics, with each section score standardised for age. There is no writing: every question is multiple choice.

The familiarisation guide, which the Foundation and the West Midlands Grammar Schools site both link, shows the question styles in a form a child can try. In outline, its verbal reasoning examples include finding a word hidden across two neighbouring words, choosing the two words most opposite in meaning, one from each group, restoring three missing letters in a word, and picking out the words that do not belong with the others. Its non-verbal examples include choosing the figure most like the two figures shown and finding a target shape hidden inside a diagram; its English example is a short passage with questions on meaning and word class; its mathematics examples are short word problems. The guide says not every type it presents will definitely appear in the real tests, and that other types will. It also says the mathematics draws on what children have been taught in class, with some questions “more challenging than what you are used to”.

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What the Foundation says about tuition, and the practice material it points to

The Foundation's entrance test page states its position in these words:

“Intensive coaching or tuition is not in the long term best interests of your child. The Grammar Schools in Birmingham is in no way connected to, nor does it endorse or recommend, the services of any organisation or agency purporting to offer tuition and/or revision courses for children to assist in preparing them for school entrance tests.”

The West Midlands Grammar Schools site, which covers the wider group of 19 schools, says that none of its schools is connected to, or endorses or recommends, such services. That covers Leading Tuition as it covers every provider: we are not connected to the Foundation or to Camp Hill Boys, and nothing on this page is endorsed by either. A family should read the statement before deciding whether to use a tutor at all. Birmingham City Council's coaching page takes a related line for primary schools: “no teaching or coaching for selective tests should happen in Birmingham's primary schools”, because “coaching can be counter-productive”.

What the Foundation does provide is familiarisation:

• The familiarisation guide, described above.
• GL Assessment's free familiarisation materials. The Foundation points to GL Assessment's website for further sample questions, and GL offers free familiarisation sets in verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, English and maths. GL asks that private tutors do not copy or reuse them, so we link them here and do not reproduce them.
• Published practice books. The Foundation says publications to help with entrance tests “are available online and from leading bookshops”, and that “Neither the Admissions Office nor any of the schools keep past papers.”
• Free early access to Atom Home for children who attract the Pupil Premium. The Foundation's support page encourages parents to register a child in Year 3, Year 4 or Year 5, and says the programme “is designed to help children get familiar with the type of questions they may see on the entrance test and build exam technique and confidence”. Camp Hill Boys' own admissions page describes the offer for a child “in Year 4 or 5” who has been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last six years, with access once his primary school has verified his Pupil Premium status.

Familiarity with the question styles and exam technique is the common ground between the Foundation's own free programme and the preparation described below.

What preparing for Camp Hill Boys involves

The weighting sets the order of work. English and verbal reasoning carry 50% of the result between them, so they take the largest share of a boy's preparation: wide reading, vocabulary and close reading of a passage for the English sections, and fluency with the verbal reasoning question styles in the familiarisation guide. Mathematics and non-verbal and spatial reasoning carry 25% each. Mathematics preparation starts with secure arithmetic, because the section is timed and there is no calculator, and moves on to problems less familiar than classroom work. Non-verbal and spatial reasoning is shape-based, so it repays practice on the question styles until they are routine.

The route a boy is on decides what the preparation is for. For a boy in the catchment the aim is the priority score, 224 for 2027 entry, a threshold. For a boy outside the catchment, or inside it but short of 224, the ranking in category 5 runs on test score, so marks gained in any of the four sections count toward it. The weights are the same for both; the routes differ in what the mark is compared with.

What a mock mark can and cannot tell you

The Foundation says: “We do not provide raw scores and we do not provide information that details how many available marks there are in each section or in the test as a whole.” It adds that answer sheets are scanned and marked by computer and are not re-marked. A family therefore cannot work out from a mock how many correct answers become a standardised score such as 254, and a mock mark cannot be read as a score like 254. What a mock does show is where marks are lost: which of the four areas, which question styles, and whether a boy finishes each timed section. Those findings are what preparation can act on.

The last stage of preparation copies the test's conditions: two timed papers with a break between them, an answer sheet, pencils and an eraser, no calculator and no watch. Timed sittings in a quiet environment are an important part of preparation that is easy to overlook. Our guides to 11+ exam technique and to creating an 11+ study plan cover the wider picture, and a free consultation covers a plan for your son.

What one-to-one preparation for Camp Hill Boys involves

Lessons with Leading Tuition are delivered online, and this preparation is one-to-one. Our 11+ specialists work with children from Year 4 onwards, building the reasoning, maths and English skills that selective school entrance tests reward. A tutor begins by identifying the test format the boy will face, here the West Midlands Grammar Schools Entrance Test described above, and builds a preparation plan around it. The plan includes realistic timed mock exams and detailed feedback after each session. The 11+ tuition page sets out more of our approach, and a free consultation is the place to talk through a plan for your son.

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Where 2027 entry stands, and how registration works for a younger boy

The Foundation's timeline page is headed 2027 entry, so its dates describe the cycle for boys born between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016. Registration opened on Tuesday 5 May 2026 and closed at 4pm on Friday 26 June 2026, and the West Midlands Grammar Schools site describes registration for September 2027 entry as closed. The test was sat on Saturday 12 September 2026, in two sessions, AM and PM. The Foundation's timeline had scores reaching families by Friday 16 October 2026, before the local authority preference form, whose national closing date is Saturday 31 October 2026. Offers for September 2027 entry are made on 1 March 2027, or the next working day in the policy's words.

The Foundation says a child who does not reach the qualifying score will not be considered for a place and the school should not be listed on his preference form. Birmingham City Council adds that listing a grammar school for a child who is not successful in the test reduces the number of schools a family could have listed. Camp Hill Boys' admissions page says a family can name up to six schools on the home local authority form, and the council makes the point that sitting the test is not the same as expressing a preference: a family must also complete its own council's application form.

Late registration is described differently by three bodies, and we set the wording side by side without reconciling it. Camp Hill Boys' September 2027 policy says candidates who are not registered by the deadline “may only be tested in exceptional circumstances and considered after the main round of allocations has been made in March 2027”. The Foundation's timeline says “It is not possible to register for the test after this time”. Birmingham City Council says “Late registrations are not allowed”. A family in that position should put the question to the Foundation's office.

A younger boy follows the same sequence a year behind. The Foundation says families register when the child is in Year 5 and the child sits the test in Year 6. The boys who sat on 12 September 2026 were born between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016, and a boy in Year 5 in the autumn of 2026 is one cohort behind them. Sixth-form entry is a different route: the school's policy has a separate sixth-form section, covered on our Camp Hill Boys 16+ page. For a boy who will sit in a later year, a free consultation is the place to plan the preparation.

Reviewed October 2026: dates, figures and rules checked against King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys’ September 2027 admission policy and admissions page, the King Edward VI Foundation’s entrance test, timeline, results and offers and Pupil Premium pages, the West Midlands Grammar Schools website and Birmingham City Council’s grammar schools pages.

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