Schools / The Spires College
The Spires College is a co-educational partially selective school in Torquay, Torbay, educating around 1,200 pupils aged 11 to 18. Its selective-stream places are allocated by the Torbay grammar schools consortium test, provided by GL Assessment (English and mathematics).
Athena holds admission-route records for The Spires College. They are shown by entry cycle below; where the provider changes between cycles, each cycle keeps its own recorded exam.
Set by GL Assessment
Torbay grammar schools consortium test, provided by GL Assessment: two multiple-choice papers — English and Maths — each about 50 minutes, shared in one sitting with the three Torbay grammar schools. Partially selective school: 60 Year 7 places form the selective stream allocated by this test.
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Set by GL Assessment
Torbay grammar schools consortium test, provided by GL Assessment: two multiple-choice papers — English and Maths — each about 50 minutes, shared in one sitting with the three Torbay grammar schools. Partially selective school: 60 Year 7 places form the selective stream allocated by this test.
10713 published practice questions tagged for this exam
Route record: unverified
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Test: Mid-September of Year 6, on a Saturday (September 2027)
Results: October 2027 — consortium outcomes are published to parents
Offers: National Offer Day — Wednesday 1 March 2028
When to start preparing: Start preparing in the spring term of Year 5 (the standing rule: about 18 months before the test).
General guidance: this follows the rule of thumb of starting about 18 months before the test. It is not the school's own published advice.
Test: Mid-September of Year 6, on a Saturday (September 2026)
Results: October 2026 — consortium outcomes are published to parents
Offers: National Offer Day — Monday 1 March 2027
When to start preparing: Start preparing in the spring term of Year 5 (the standing rule: about 18 months before the test).
General guidance: this follows the rule of thumb of starting about 18 months before the test. It is not the school's own published advice.
No catchment — open competition
Sixty of the school’s Year 7 places form a selective stream, allocated by score in the Torbay consortium test after the statutory priorities; the school’s remaining places are allocated under its own non-selective criteria, principally distance.
GCSE: Attainment 8 score 44.5; 51.4% of pupils achieved grade 9-5 or above in English and maths GCSEs
DfE performance tables
A level: Average point score per A level entry 28.02 (average grade C-); 10.0% of A level students achieved AAB or higher
DfE performance tables
Source: official source · checked 2026-10-28
GCSE: Attainment 8 score 43.6; 40.3% of pupils achieved grade 9-5 or above in English and maths GCSEs
DfE performance tables
A level: Average point score per A level entry 26.90 (average grade C-)
DfE performance tables
Source: official source · checked 2026-10-28
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