Year 7 Admissions 2025
Slough Consortium of Grammar Schools
The Slough Consortium of Grammar Schools consists of Herschel Grammar School, Langley Grammar School, St Bernard’s Catholic Grammar School and Upton Court Grammar School. The purpose of the Consortium is to coordinate arrangements for entry to Year 7 through a common 11+ examination.
All information about the admissions arrangements for Year 7 entry in September 2025 can be found on this page.
School allocations and appeals for September 2025 entry
Parents will be able to access their child's school allocation through their relevant local authority portal on Monday 3rd March 2025.
The opportunity to appeal is available to parents if your child is not offered a place in their preferred grammar school which has been named on the Common Application Form. Applications for appeals must be made by Monday 31st March 2025 and timely appeals will be heard by the Independent Appeals Panel in April, May and June 2025.
Please use the link below to access the Appeals website.
http://www.appealsclerks.co.uk/
Please note:
- You cannot start an appeal until Monday 3rd March 2025.
- Do not contact the individual schools regarding appeals as the process is carried out independently to ensure fairness and objectivity.
Results of the 11+ examination held in September 2024 for entry in September 2025
The results for the 11+ examination for the Slough Consortium of Grammar Schools were made available on Friday 18th October 2024.
Parents should log on to the portal at https://slough.applicaa.com/entry25 to view their child’s 11+ result. They should use the email and password they set when registering their child for the examination.
To see the result – please click on the test results icon.
Children who scored 111 or above in the test, are eligible to be considered for a place at any of the Slough Consortium grammar schools that are named on their Common Application Form.
There are far more eligible applicants than there are places available, so schools will apply their oversubscription criteria to decide how the places are offered. If you have questions about any particular school’s admissions arrangements, please contact that school’s admissions officer directly.
You must complete your Common Application Form by 31st October 2024, listing the schools to which you wish to apply in your genuine order of preference. If a school requires an additional supplementary information form to be completed to help them decide on how to allocate places, this must be submitted to the school concerned by 31st October. Returning a supplementary form is simply providing the school with further required information – it does not guarantee that you will be offered a place.
Herschel Grammar School doesn't require a supplementary form at this point in time.
You will be able to find out which school your child has been allocated on 1st March 2025.
Please view our Frequently Asked Questions, Statistics Summary for 2024 Entry and Anonymised results documents at the end of this page.
Registration for the Slough Consortium 11+ Examination
Registration for the Slough Consortium 11+ examination is now CLOSED. It was open from Wednesday 1st May 2024 at 10am and closed at 10am on Wednesday 12th June 2024.
The examination was held on Saturday 21st September 2024.
Please read all the available information below if you have questions regarding the Slough Consortium 11+ process.
Please click on the link below for further information regarding 11+ Familiarisation Material.
11+ Familiarisation Material
Herschel Grammar School Open Evening
Herschel Grammar School held their Open Evening on Wednesday 9th October 2024. Unfortunately we do not hold any further Open Events.
Slough Consortium 11+ Online Information Event - Tuesday 23rd April 2024
The Slough Consortium held an online 11+ information event for parents on Tuesday 23rd April 2024. The aim of this briefing was to provide information about registering your child for the Slough Consortium 11+ examination and the arrangements for completing the Common Application Form.
A copy of the presentation given can be found at the bottom of this page.
A summary of the questions asked by parents, and the Consortium responses, is available at the bottom of this page.
A recorded version of the presentation can be found below.
We have produced two key documents to give you more information about the Slough Consortium 11+ testing process. Please find these documents at the bottom of this page.
- Slough Consortium Guide to the 11+ for 2025 entry
- Slough Consortium Key Dates for September 2025 entry
2025 Year 7 Entry
The formal Determined Admissions Arrangements (also known as the admissions policy) for entry to Herschel Grammar School in September 2025 were approved by the Governing Board in February 2024 and can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
The Slough Consortium operate a shared 11+ entrance examination process using the same examination papers and common eligibility criteria.
11+ test provider for September 2025
The Slough Consortium of Grammar Schools has contracted with GL Assessment as the test provider for the 11+ examinations to be held in September 2023, 2024 and 2025.
The structure and format of the examinations with GL Assessment will be similar to those used under the previous provider. Pupils will sit two test papers, with questions covering a combination of verbal and non-verbal reasoning, English and mathematics. All marking and standardisation will be carried out by the test provider.
The eligibility score will continue to be set at 111 on a standardised scale. Pupils who score 111 or above will be in the top 35% of the cohort sitting the examination and will be considered eligible for consideration for a grammar school place should their parents apply on their behalf.
The Slough Consortium has its own contract with GL Assessment and there will be no sharing of 11+ scores with any other schools.
