Wolverhampton Girls' High School
Wolverhampton Girls' High School is a grammar school for girls in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. Overview. Wolverhampton Girls' High School, founded in 1911, educates girls from the age of 11 to 18. There are some 1015 girls enrolled, including about two hundred in the sixth form. It was previously awarded the status of Language College in the UK's Specialist Schools Programme, and converted to academy status on 1 April 2014. Entrance. Entry to the school is via the Shropshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton Grammar Schools Consortium (Adams' Grammar, Newport Girls High, Queen Mary  Grammar and High School and Wolverhampton Girls High School), testing Maths, English, verbal and non-verbal reasoning. These tests take place during Year 6 of primary education (in September). 11+ examinations must be taken in order to be enrolled in the school. House system. Structure. There are four houses: Audley, Ferrers, Paget and Stafford. Each has its own colour (yellow, red, green and blue respectively), as well as its own House leader, assistant house leader who are also members of staff, and team of house representatives chosen from Sixth Form students. House Captains and Vice Captains lead and oversee  activities, while more specific duties are delegated through roles such as Drama Captain and Tennis Captain. House activities. House activities include sporting events, debating, arts events. A trophy is awarded each term to the house gaining most points through these events and through student merit points. Curriculum. There used to be four forms according to which house a student belonged to, however the school now has five forms in each year. Subjects are taught in form groups in years 7 to 9 and then in option groups for the more senior years. Girls take English and at least three foreign  languages, religious studies, history, geography, mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, technology, information technology, art, music and physical education. Foreign languages are chosen from French, German, Latin, Russian and Spanish. More recently, students have started to take one major European language and one language with a different writing system in year 7, then to begin Latin in year 8. At GCSE level, alongside English, mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics, students are required to take at least one foreign language, and one of geography, history, and religious studies. Further, girls take two more subjects of their choice, and in year 11 are given  the option to take GCSE-level further mathematics if they desire. Results. The school has been producing high results for many years and has frequently been ranked within the top 10 state schools in the country for its performance at GCSE and A level. Over 80% of GCSE grades are either A or A*, with the majority of pupils gaining nine or more GCSEs at these grades. The 2006 A-level results placed the school in fifth place in the performance league table for all maintained schools in the West Midlands. In 2009, 100% of girls who sat GCSE examinations  gained 5 or more A*–C GCSEs. Since the 2017 GCSE reforms, WGHS has continued to perform highly in subjects. Notably, in 2019, three-quarters of results were a grade 7 to 9, and 87% of students achieved at least a grade 4 in all 5 EBacc subjects.