Rugby High School 11 plus: 2024 entry guide

Are you considering Rugby High School for your child? We've collated all the information you need to know about 2024 entry to Year 7, including key dates, how to register your child and what's on the 11 plus exam.

About Rugby High School

Founded in 1903, Rugby High School is a selective girls’ grammar school located in Bilton, Warwickshire with an attached mixed sixth form. The school aims to educate students as ‘ambitious and creative thinkers’ who strive for academic excellence in their studies and a wide range of extracurricular activities.

• Address: Longrood Road, Rugby, CV22 7RE

• Local authority: Warwickshire County Council

• School type: girls' grammar

• Headteacher: Mark Grady

• Number of pupils: 868

• National rank (Sunday Times Parent Power): 96

• A level results: 71.8% A*–B

• GCSE results: 81.4% 9/8/7

Key info for Year 7 admissions

• Admissions contact: [email protected]

• Number of places in Year 7: 120

• Open day: virtual open day

• 11 plus registration opens: 9th May 2023

• 11 plus registration closes: 30th June 2023

• Exam date: 16th–18th September 2023

• Exam results: mid-October 2023

• Exam type: GL Assessment (West Midlands 11 plus)

• Common application form (CAF) deadline: 31st October 2023

• National school offer day: 1st March 2024

What is the pass mark for Rugby High School?

After your child takes the exam, their scores are age-standardised and combined to give them a total score across both papers. Scores are ranked in order and the highest-scoring children are offered a place, with oversubscription criteria applied.

The school sets an automatic qualifying score and a minimum academic standard each year once the papers have been marked. This will depend on the size and performance of the year group.

Achieving a particular score doesn't guarantee a place at the school, as it is usually oversubscribed with qualified candidates. We always recommend researching the admission policies for your target schools, looking at their oversubscription criteria and their catchment area.

Rugby High School oversubscription criteria

The planned admission number (PAN) for the school is 120. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) that names Rugby High School are offered places first, as long as they achieve the minimum standard for entry. Places are then allocated to children in this order:

• Category 1: Looked-After or Previously Looked-After Children who achieve the automatic qualifying score or up to 15 marks below it.

• Category 2: Children living in the priority areas who are eligible for Free School Meals and who achieve the automatic qualifying score or up to 15 marks below it.

• Category 3: Children living in area 1 (east Warwickshire) who achieve the automatic qualifying score or above.

• Category 4: Children living in area 2 (eastern priority circle) who achieve the automatic qualifying score or above.

• Category 5: Children living inside or outside the priority areas who achieve the automatic qualifying score or above.

• Category 6: Children living inside or outside the priority areas who score below the automatic qualifying score, but above the required minimum academic standard for the waiting list.

Those with the highest scores in each category are given highest priority for a place. In the case of children with the same score in any of these categories, the child living nearest the school in a straight line is given highest priority.

Rugby High School priority areas

The overall priority area for Rugby High School is based on a circle with a radius of 10.004 miles drawn from the Rugby Water Tower. This circle is split into two:

• Priority area 1 (east Warwickshire): the town of Rugby and its surrounding villages

• Priority area 2 (eastern priority circle): the rest of the circle

There is a map on the school's website.

You'll need to submit evidence to prove that your child lives within the priority areas by the end of December 2023.

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