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Highsted Grammar School: 11+ entrance exam
Girls’ grammar school in Sittingbourne.
Highsted Grammar School · Girls’ grammar school · SittingbourneAdmissions (the school’s website)
Sources checked 22 September 2026; the school’s admissions page is the final word.
11+ For Year 7
The 11+ entrance test
Highsted Grammar School’s 11+ entrance test is set by the school itself, taken online and on paper. It tests verbal reasoning, maths, non-verbal reasoning, English, reading comprehension and a piece of writing.
Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 7 in September 2028: date not yet published.
Places: not published on the pages read.
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When it is sat
Saturday 12 September 2026
For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Registration closes 1 July 2026. Source Source Source
Saturday 12 September 2026 (same day as the Kent Test out-of-county sittings). Registration opened 9am 1 June 2026; the school page gives the close as 4pm Wednesday 1 July 2026 (the determined policy said 30 June). Late registration with evidence up to 22 July 2026. Girls must also register for the Kent Test and send evidence.Not yet published
For Year 7 in September 2028, sat in Year 6. The date is not on the pages read. Source
What the school says
- How it is taken
- Online and on paper. Source
- What it tests
- Verbal reasoning, maths, non-verbal reasoning, English, reading comprehension and a piece of writing. Source
- The papers
- Computer-based reasoning test; English paper (reading and writing), written answers. Source Source
- How places are decided
- Pass marks depend on local results, anticipated to correspond approximately to the top 25% nationally. Source
- Interview Inferred
- No. Source
No interview is mentioned in the admission arrangements.
11+ A shared test
Kent Test
Highsted Grammar School is also one of the 34 schools that take Kent Test (Kent PESE 11+). The 34 schools share one test: set by GL Assessment, taken on paper. It tests English, reading comprehension, spelling, punctuation and grammar, maths, verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, spatial reasoning and a piece of writing.
Sources
Where every line comes from.
- Highsted Grammar School admissions criteria 2027-2028 (via Kent County Council) checked 22 September 2026
The page’s words
“The school will also admit girls through success in the Highsted procedure where a girl has been unsuccessful in the Kent testing process. ... Testing will take place at Highsted Grammar School, Sittingbourne on the Saturday following the Kent test in September 2026 (12 September 2026).”
- Admissions Policy 2027-28, Highsted Grammar School checked 22 September 2026
The page’s words
“A computer-based test which will assess verbal ability, numerical reasoning and nonverbal reasoning and which will be locally standardised.”
“An English paper to assess Reading and Writing skills and which will be marked. (Not computer based or multiple choice)”
“register to do so between 9:00 am Monday 1 June 2026 and 4:00 pm on Tuesday 30 June 2026 ... late registrations will be accepted but only up to Wednesday 22 July 2026. ... Kent test in September 2026 (12 September 2026).”
- Admissions, Highsted Grammar School checked 22 September 2026
The page’s words
“The application period for this additional Admission route has now opened and will remain available until 4:00 pm on Wednesday 1 July 2026, for the September 2027 entry.”
- Secondary schools with individual admissions criteria 2027/28, Kent County Council checked 22 September 2026
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