register for West Midlands Grammar School (moving from other areas)

[amoyguang]

Hello. My son is currently in year 5 and we live in Cambridge. Due to work change, we are likely to move to Birmingham in the next half of the year. Can he register for the West Midlands Grammar School entrance test in the September?

Hmm...

Presumably, you've seen this statement on the KE Foundation website regarding registering for the test?

https://kingedwardvifoundation.co.uk/the-test/

All costs associated with the entrance test, including the test itself, are paid for by the grammar schools – the test is not to be used as a practice or ‘mock test’ by candidates with no intention of applying for a place at any of The Grammar Schools in Birmingham. Should you decide to register for the entrance test and it is deemed that your home address is not within a reasonable commutable distance to The Grammar Schools in Birmingham, you will be contacted by the Admissions Office to provide further information to support your application to sit the test – this will include a request for evidence of your intention to relocate, such as a recent house purchase in the area for example.

As registering to sot an entrabce exam is categorically not applying for a place at a school and the relevant date for actually applying for school places and providing home address for application purposes is not until September/ October and the admissions policies for the individual schools deal with the 'OOC' issue, then although I can see their point re people who have no intention of applying for a place using the test as a free mock exam for wherever they are actually aiming for, I'm not sure that an actual designated grammar school can refuse to allow someone to try to equip their DC with the number one prerequisite- a qualifying score in the entrance exam. But I may be wrong.