Admissions

The central aim of King Edward VI High School for Girls is to provide an education for bright girls, regardless of their background.

In our admissions process we do all we can to ensure we offer places to girls who have the greatest potential to benefit from a KEHS education. 

At KEHS, we aim to offer all our students an unrivalled and distinctive education characterised by forward-looking and challenging academic teaching that is delivered in a supportive and nurturing environment, with an abundance of co-curricular opportunities to develop character and perspective. We strive to support students not only to succeed in their studies but to become independent, resilient young women ready for the future. 

Our usual entry points are at the start of Year 7 and the start of Year 12, but we will sometimes consider applicants for entry into Year 8 or Year 9, if space is available.

How to apply

The steps below will provide you with the information you need to make an application to our school.

Please note KEHS does not accept applications from international students. Girls applying to the school must hold either a UK passport or the relevant visas to remain in the UK, and must be living locally with their family.

The majority of girls enter the School in Year 7(11+). Each year, around 96 girls join us from a wide variety of schools and backgrounds.  

For entry into Year 7 in September 2025 candidates should have been born between 1 September 2013 and 31 August 2014. 

The first step in the application process is to complete the 11+ Application Form online. This form provides us with all the information we need to be able to register your daughter for the examination and enables you to express an interest in applying for an Assisted Place and/or music scholarship, if applicable.  

A non-refundable registration fee of £50+VAT will be payable at the time of application, unless you provide proof of receipt of Universal Credit, Income Support or Job Seeker’s Allowance (not Tax Credits).  Please note applicants at other entry points the registration fee is £150+VAT. A recent passport style photograph will need to be uploaded. 

On receipt of the application form, we encourage you to view our advice about the 11+ examination and sample questions available on our website. We will also request a headteacher’s report from your daughter’s current school.

The entrance examination consists of one English paper and one Mathematics paper.  

The English paper is designed to test reading and writing skills and to explore a candidate’s potential. The Mathematics paper consists of a series of questions of varying lengths, designed to test the candidate’s ability to use and apply the straightforward processes of arithmetic.  

All parents are notified by post as to the outcome of their daughter’s application, whether they have or have not been offered a place, a scholarship, an Assisted Place or if they are on the reserve list. 

To accept a place, a non-refundable deposit is required of £400 from all full fee-paying parents. 

If you decide to decline the offer of a place, we ask that you inform us as soon as possible so that we may offer the place to a candidate on the reserve list.

11+ application opens for 2025: Thursday 28 March 2024

11+ application deadline for 2025 entry: Monday 23 September 2024 at 12 noon

Entrance exam: Friday 4 October 2024

Interviews by invitation only for academic scholarships, Assisted Places and girls on the borderline: November 2024 TBC

Music scholarship auditions: November 2024 TBC

Results sent by letter to parents: Monday 9 December 2024

Acceptance deadline: Tuesday 4 March 2025 

Applications for 11+ entry should be made via our online registration system

Our Sixth Form offers an outstanding education for able students who like original ideas and new challenges, and we are delighted to welcome a number of new students in Year 12 each year.  

We offer a wide range of A Level subjects across literature and humanities, the arts, social sciences, modern foreign languages, classical languages, maths and the sciences, plus the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), inspiring each student’s imagination and enabling her to develop her intellectual passions.  

If we feel that an applicant has the potential to study successfully at KEHS, she is invited to an interview with a member of the Senior Leadership Team, and usually a Head of Department. All offers made are conditional upon final GCSE results and candidates are required to attend KEHS on GCSE results day to confirm their final results. 

General entry requirements

We would usually expect a pupil to have gained a minimum of Grade 7 in GCSE Maths and Grade 7 in GCSE English Language or GCSE English Literature. We also expect entrants to the Sixth Form to have a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 7.2 or higher but pupils with a lower GPA who meet the entrance requirements in other respects will be invited to a meeting to discuss the most suitable Sixth Form programme for them. 

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Subject-specific requirements  

A pupil will be expected to have gained a minimum of GCSE Grade 7 in her chosen A Level subjects, with the following exceptions for which there are different minimum entry requirements: 

  • Maths: Grade 8 in Maths 
  • Further Maths: Grade 8 in Maths (also with the completion of an Additional Maths course that we will provide during the summer preceding Year 12) 
  • Biology: Grade 7 in Maths and Grade 7 in Biology* 
  • Chemistry: Grade 7 in Maths and Grade 8 in Chemistry* 
  • Physics: Grade 7 in Maths and Grade 7 in Physics* 
  • Mandarin: Grade 8 in Mandarin
  • PE: Grade 7 in PE and one sport played at a representative level.  
  • Music: Grade 7 ABRSM  

*If a pupil has studied Dual Award Science at GCSE and wishes to study a science at A Level, we would expect her to have gained a minimum of 8/8. 

If a pupil wishes to study an A Level subject she has not pursued at GCSE, we would expect the following:  

  • Politics: Grade 7 in an essay-based subject such as History or English 
  • Computer Science: Grade 8 in Maths (also with the completion of preparatory work during the summer preceding Year 12)  
  • Religious Studies: Grade 7 in English (Language or Literature) 
  • Economics: Grade 7 in Maths 
  • Psychology: Grade 7 in English (Language or Literature) and Grade 7 in a science 
  • PE: Grade 7 in Biology** and one sport played at a representative level. 

** If a pupil has studied Dual Award Science at GCSE and wishes to study A Level PE, we would expect her to have gained a minimum of 7/7. 

2025 entry 

Applications to join Year 12 in September 2025 will open on Monday 4 November 2024. 

The deadline will be Monday 3 February 2025. Interviews will take place throughout February and March 2025. 

A non-refundable registration fee of £50+VAT will be payable at the time of application, unless you provide proof of receipt of Universal Credit, Income Support or Job Seeker’s Allowance (not Tax Credits). 

Please ensure that you indicate the relevant place on the form if you would like to be considered for an Assisted Place and/or music scholarship, or sports scholarship if applicable. Please ensure that you notify us of any changes to your contact details or circumstances during the application process. 

On receipt of the application form we will request a headteacher’s report from your daughter’s current school. 

For more information about Sixth Form Sport, Music and Academic Scholarship please visit our scholarship pages.  

The entry process for the Sixth Form (16+) consists of an application form and personal statement, predicted GCSE results, a headteacher’s report and predicted GCSE results. 

Following the interviews and a satisfactory report from the candidate’s current school, a conditional offer may be made.

Applications for Sixth Form entry should be made via our online registration system.

If spaces are available, KEHS will consider applications for girls to join Year 8 and Year 9. 

Please contact the Director of Admissions for further information on 0121 415 2195 or admissions@kehs.org.uk

Contact the Admissions Office

For further information on any part of the admissions process or to arrange a visit to the school:

Fees

Assisted Places

Scholarships

Entrance Exams

Open Days

Prospectus

FAQs

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