Admissions Procedure for Overseas Pupils

Boys and girls may enter St Edmund's Senior School at ages 13, 14 and 16 i.e. in years 9 (Lower Fifth), 10 (Middle Fifth) and 12 (Lower Sixth).

The Junior School accepts boarders at ages 8 - 12.

Step 1 - Contact our school

For Senior School Admissions please contact Mrs Carol Hawkins at admissions@stemunds.org.uk or telephone + 44 (0)1227 475600.

For Junior School Admissions please contact Ms Yvonne King at yk@stedmunds.org.uk or telephone + 44 (0)1227 475600.

Step 2 - Registration

Parents will be required to register their child/children for St Edmund's School by completing and returning a Registration Form, together with £75 registration fee (payable by bank draft). The child's name is then added to the provisional list for entry in the term indicated. A child cannot be assessed for entry and subsequently accepted without first registering. This fee is non-refundable.

Step 3 - Assessment

Ideally the Headmaster would wish to interview the child, however agents, in the child's country of origin, may be instructed to do this on the school's behalf.

  • For entry into years 9 and 10 children will have to take an entrance exam in Maths and English.
  • For entry into year 12, prospective pupils have to achieve a minimum of 6 GCSE or IGCSE passes at grade C and above, together with minimum B grades in their chosen A-level subjects.
  • Overseas prospective pupils not sitting GCSEs or IGCSEs, are required to take entrance exams in each of the chosen A-level options.
  • If English is not the pupil's first language, the prospective pupil is also required to sit an English exam.
  • For pupils applying for the Junior School entrance tests are not usually required.

Step 4 - Requesting reference and report

Parents are asked to provide copies of the two most recent school reports from their child's current school.

Step 5 - Offer of a place

Assuming assessment is successful a formal offer of a place in the school will be sent to the parents with a copy of the Entrance Form and Parents' Contract. Parents respond by accepting the place in writing, completing the Entrance Form, agreeing to the school's terms and conditions and paying a non-refundable deposit (50% of one term's fees).

Admissions Policy

Admission to St Edmund's School depends upon a prospective pupil meeting the criteria required to ensure that he or she will:

  • benefit from and be challenged by the educational programme we offer;
  • find the educational programme accessible;
  • feel comfortable with the range and depth of the programme and the pace at which it is delivered;
  • feel comfortable in the intellectual context of other pupils in that year group;
  • maintain and if possible exceed the educational and general standards we expect of our pupils.

We must feel reasonably sure that we will be able to develop the prospective pupil to the best of his or her potential and in line with the general standards achieved by the pupil's peers. There needs to be every chance that the pupil will have a complete, happy and successful career and emerge confident, well-educated and well-rounded. These criteria must continue to be met during a child's time at St Edmund's School.

Our policy is to apply these criteria to all pupils and potential pupils regardless of any disability of which we are aware, subject to our obligation to make reasonable adjustments so as not to put any pupil at a substantial disadvantage when compared to others. Whilst we do not have a specialist unit, children with Special Education Needs (SEN) are accommodated as far as we are able within our limited resource provision.