13+ Admissions

All pupils sitting our entrance exam are considered for an academic scholarship.

At 13+, you can also apply for a maximum of two scholarships in Sport, Drama, Music, Art and Design & Technology. You should indicate which scholarships you want to apply for, and complete the relevant forms, when you make your application. Scholarship forms will be completed online during the application process which opens in September 2020.

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Applications for entry in September 2023 are now closed.

Please register with us by completing our 13+ pre-test application form.

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All applicants for 13+ entry into Year 9 in 2025 will sit our 11+ entrance examinations on 5 January 2023. If your son’s current school also enters him for the Independent Schools Exam Board (ISEB) Pre-tests in October/November, we will use the data from those tests, to support your son’s application. Whilst this is useful supporting data, we do not absolutely require all of our applicants to sit for the ISEB Pre-tests

Following a successful exam performance, your son will be invited for an interview which will take place in late January or early February 2023. An offer would then be made for entry in September 2025, on the condition that he continues to make good academic progress and has a satisfactory pastoral report. We will ask for school reports from the end of Year 7 as supporting evidence.

In the event of an exceptional performance in the entrance tests, we may offer a small number of unconditional places. Candidates that are unsuccessful at the 13+ pre-test may reapply at 13+.

See our Admissions Handbook for further information.

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Our scholarship assessments will be carried out in January 2025 with the rest of the cohort but, in the event of an exceptional exam performance, we may award a small number of academic scholarships with unconditional offers. For scholarship assessments – Academic, Sport, Music, Drama, Art or D.T., we ask that you apply in the year prior to entry; we should receive applications for these scholarships by the end of November 2024.

Entry at 13+ is competitive, but we are able to offer generous Whitgift Foundation bursaries and no family should be deterred from applying for financial reasons. Bursaries may be applied for by the end of November 2023; full details of this are found on the Whitgift Foundation’s website.

We will continue to assess boys at 13+, so that any boys who are unsuccessful with the pre-test will be able to apply in the autumn of Year 8.

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