Urmston Grammar Academy is a co-educational selective grammar on Newton Road in Trafford, serving ages 11 to 18. The school's history page traces a line from Urmston Science and Arts School in 1882, through the first use of the Urmston Grammar name in 1923, to the move to the current site in 1929, full co-educational amalgamation in 1991 and academy conversion in 2010. The school has around 1,124 pupils on roll.
The school's ethos is built around the motto "Manners Makyth Man" and the three key messages of pride, participation and empathy. Its headteacher's welcome describes a school with a proud tradition of strong academic outcomes and personal development, including past national recognition as a Science and Language College. That history helps explain the modern grammar-school blend: academic selectivity, but with behaviour, courtesy and contribution made explicit.
Music is one of the clearest windows into wider life at Urmston. The school says music flourishes from Years 7 to 13, with opportunities in lessons, assemblies, concerts and community events; all Year 7 students take part in the first-term Let's Sing concert, and the curriculum includes world musics, popular styles, notation, keyboard skills and music technology. The wider site also points to sport, trips and visits, debating, student leadership, and facilities including an Astroturf, sports hall, theatre, conference room and main hall.
Year 7 admission has 150 places and uses the Trafford Grammar School Consortium GL entrance exam across verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and mathematics. The qualifying score is 324 or above for pupil-premium candidates and 334 or 334R and above for other candidates, with places then allocated through categories including pupil premium, top scores, children of staff, siblings and distance within priority postcodes. Ofsted judged the school Good in May 2022; GOV.UK shows +0.88 Progress 8, 98% grade 5+ in English and maths, and 30.2% AAB or better at A level.
