Admissions Policy

Aylesbury Grammar School (an Academy Trust School since 1 July 2011) is designated as a grammar
school for boys. The admissions policy for the school follows The Coordinated Admissions Scheme for
Secondary Schools in the Area of Buckinghamshire Council Local Authority (the County Scheme)
unless stated.

Our admissions appeals are handled, on our behalf, by Buckinghamshire Council (BC).  For information and policies relating to appeals, please click below:

For information regarding school catchments please see the BC Postcode checking facility. Please click below. You will need to enter your child’s date of birth first:

The Aylesbury Grammar School Catchment map is available below:

Admission of children with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) into Year 7

Schools are required to admit a child where the school is named in Section I of an Education, Health and Care Plan. Before naming a school in an EHCP a Local Authority is required to consult with the school. Where a student is transferring from primary or middle school to secondary school, this consultation must be completed by 15 February in the calendar year of the transfer at the latest. Where Aylesbury Grammar School is consulted on being named in Section I of an EHCP, Aylesbury Grammar School will consider whether it would be unsuitable for the age, ability, aptitude or SEN of the child, and whether the attendance of the child would be incompatible with the efficient education of others, and/or the efficient use of resources. The taking of the Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test (STT) and obtaining of a qualifying score will be good evidence that the child is academically suited to the school.

EHCP consultations regarding a Buckinghamshire grammar school will therefore rarely be effective if the child has not yet sat or obtained their result from the STT. This is because Aylesbury Grammar School will not be able to respond to consultation effectively without knowing the academic ability of the child and what reasonable adjustments could be made, both of which are needed to inform the school’s assessment of suitability and compatibility with the education of others.  For this reason, it is expected that all children seeking a place at Aylesbury Grammar School will take the STT and that their result is confirmed before the School is able to respond to an EHCP consultation.

The school will expect the local authority to follow this timetable in relation to consideration of naming the school in section I of a child’s EHC Plan:

• Secondary Transfer Test 11 September 2025*
• Results 10 October 2025*

*For some children these dates may be later, e.g. because of illness on the day of the Test

• EHCP consultation to start no earlier than 1 November 2025 or from the day after results are received if later
• School to respond to consultation 15 days after receipt