United Kingdom · London
Brook Green is a day school. Students live in London with their parents, usually within a 50-minute commute. The admissions pages are specific about tests, offers, and the rule that the school does not sponsor a student visa.
Questo ritratto è ancora in inglese. Le altre lingue arrivano scuola per scuola.
Curricolo come lo pubblica la scuola:GCSE / IGCSE · School-directed courses in some arts subjects · A-Level
Lingue di istruzione:English
St Paul’s Girls’ School is a day school at Brook Green, Hammersmith, W6 7BS. There is no boarding house. The admissions pages and the May 2024 admissions policy say the same thing in different words: students must live in London with a parent or carer in term time and at weekends, typically within a 50-minute journey each way. The school does not sponsor student visas. A girl who needs her own Child Student visa is not a fit for this campus. Several pupils do join from overseas each year; they do it as a dependant on a parent’s status, with that parent actually living in London.
The useful questions are practical. Can she do the commute without arriving exhausted? Is academic English already strong enough for papers that assume fluent readers and writers? Can you pay a deposit of half a term’s fee when an offer comes? And if you need help with fees, do you meet the published household-income test and the 50-minute residence rule at the moment you apply?
The homepage currently prints 88.7% A*–A at A-Level in 2025, 99.5% 9–7 / A*–A at GCSE in 2025, and 88 students on a bursary. Those are the school’s own snapshot. We are not ranking SPGS, and we are not treating a homepage percentage as your child’s forecast.
The May 2024 admissions policy — approved by the High Mistress, next review summer 2026 — says there are about 115 places at 11+ and 15 at 16+. Entry is by online test, competitive examination and interview. Siblings are welcome and still sit the same tests; there is no automatic sister place. The school is oversubscribed. Where two candidates both meet the bar, the policy allows a preference for a particular talent or aptitude.
It is a girls’ day school with its own year names. Lower School is MIV (Year 7) and the year after. Middle School runs through UIV into Years 10–11 (the school’s V and VI). Senior School is VII and the year above — Years 12–13. Use the school’s letters on a tour; use Years 7–13 when you are comparing calendars with another London school.
The 11+ and 16+ pages both say the school welcomes applications from students with SEND. The policy is more careful: parents must declare a known disability or learning need at application so reasonable adjustments can be discussed. After those adjustments, the school may still decide it cannot meet the need. That conversation belongs in the first email, not after an offer.
Brook Green is west London, not a cloister next to an abbey. The school asks families to visit. Open events sit in the autumn, by appointment. Small-group tours exist for overseas or occasional-place applicants if you write to admissions. There is no uniform. Years 7–11 often wear PE kit; otherwise the dress rule is decent, practical clothing for a working day. The bursary FAQ says forms in Year 7 are organised partly by home area so girls can travel together, and that older students are paired with new ones in the first weeks. School buses run to north London and south-west London; the 11+ page points to a published bus schedule. We are not inventing a fare.
If the journey is longer than about 50 minutes, the school may decline the application or rescind an offer. If you plan to move closer, say so on the form and be ready to prove the new address — council tax, utility bill, lease — before September. The High Mistress may refuse a place if guardianship in London is not, in her judgement, actually in place.
The first three years. Students meet a broad map: English, computer science and creative technology, mathematics, history, geography, Latin, religion and philosophy, art and design, drama, music and sciences. They also follow Discovering Languages — linguistics plus taster courses in German, Mandarin and Russian — then choose two languages from a list of six. The aim, the departments page says, is a solid grounding before anyone specialises.
Years 10–11 (V and VI). Seven subjects sit in the core: English language, English literature, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, and a modern foreign language. Students then choose four more from a list of 18 options, taken as GCSE or IGCSE. In art, drama, history of art and music they follow school-directed courses instead of the public specification. Non-examined general studies sit beside that, meant to make connections the syllabus does not.
Senior School (Years 12–13). The A-Level department pages emphasise depth beyond the syllabus. Named A-Level routes include art and design, biology, chemistry, computer science and creative technologies, drama and theatre, economics, English, geography, history, history of art, Latin and Greek, mathematics, modern languages, music, philosophy, physics and politics. Sample papers for 16+ sit on the relevant A-Level pages. Confirm the live subject list and blocking with admissions; option grids move.
The school’s ISI page quotes inspectors: attainment at GCSE and A-Level “far exceeds national averages,” and “the vast majority gain places at universities in the UK and abroad, many with challenging entry requirements.” That is the school quoting the February 2024 report. Read the PDF on the policies page if you want the inspectors’ full wording.
Use the 2027 entry pages for dates. The May 2024 policy still describes an older 11+ shape (written papers in January). The live 2027 calendar is the one that matters.
11+ for September 2027
Applications open in June 2026. Register by Friday 6 November 2026, 9am, with a copy of the passport, a visa if it applies, and a £265 registration fee (waived for bursary-only applications). Late applications are not accepted. You can mark a bursary interest and a music-scholarship interest on the same form.
All candidates sit the ISEB Common Pre-Test by Wednesday 18 November 2026 — verbal reasoning, mathematics, non-verbal reasoning — at an approved ISEB centre, at their current school if it is a centre, or on site at SPGS on Monday 16 or Tuesday 17 November 2026. Outcomes come in late November, and the school then asks the current school for a confidential reference.
Written papers are Saturday 5 December 2026, on site only, no alternative date: English, Mathematics, and General Comprehension. English is close reading of literary prose — up to six questions, no separate creative-writing paper, though the last question asks for imaginative writing. Grammar and control of sentences weigh more than spelling. Mathematics has two sections: straightforward arithmetic and problem-solving, then multi-part questions that introduce a new idea. Topics sit in the National Curriculum to KS2. Working must be shown. General Comprehension is thematic — deduction, inference, data, patterns — with no prior knowledge required beyond KS2 scientific-enquiry skills. Sample papers for 2027 are on the 11+ page.
Interviews last about 20 minutes with one senior member of staff, on Saturday 16 January or Sunday 24 January 2027. Offers go out Friday 12 February 2027. Accept by Tuesday 2 March 2027, with a deposit of 50% of a term’s fees (reduced for successful bursary candidates). An extra overseas deposit is due if a fee-payer lives outside the UK. A welcome tea for new MIV families sits in late June.
For 11+ from overseas: the ISEB can be sat at any ISEB centre worldwide. Written papers are on site only. Interviews can be remote, timed for your zone.
The school says it is not necessary to spend lots of time drilling. The bursary FAQ adds that the school knows bursary applicants may not have had the same preparation as some peers, and that it is looking for natural potential.
16+ for September 2027
Register by Friday 25 September, 9am. Applications open in June 2026. Stage 1 is an on-screen adaptive baseline test of about an hour, on site, on Thursday 1 or Friday 2 October 2026. No practice materials. Stage 2 written papers are Friday 9 October 2026: 45 minutes in each of the four proposed A-Level subjects. Mathematics and Further Mathematics count as one subject and one paper. A fifth paper may be set on interview day with notice. Interviews run Monday 9 to Friday 13 November 2026 in each chosen subject. Offers go out Tuesday 1 December 2026. Accept by Wednesday 9 December 2026, 9am, again with a half-term deposit (and an overseas deposit if it applies).
All 16+ written papers and interviews are on site. They cannot be done remotely. If you are applying from overseas, write to admissions early about logistics.
Occasional tests for Years 8–10 happen when a rare place appears. The policy is not to re-test an unsuccessful 11+ candidate until she is 13, unless there is a compelling reason.
English. The entrance process assumes fluent readers, speakers and writers of English. The school will take a girl whose first language is not English only if she can already work at that level.
The fees page we read still heads the table 2025–26. Governors review fees each year. Ask the Bursar for 2026–27 before you treat these numbers as next September’s bill.
| Per term, including VAT | |
|---|---|
| School fee, 2025–26 | £12,414 |
| New entrants to Year 12, 2025–26 | £13,409 |
Lunch and personal accident insurance are included. Textbooks, public examination fees, music lessons, LAMDA, extra sports coaching and life-drawing classes are extras. Fees go by direct debit before the first day of term, or in three instalments during the term. A single prepayment can be discussed with the Bursar’s office (bursar@spgs.org).
Application fee: £265, non-refundable, waived for bursary-only applicants.
Deposit: half the current termly fee, credited without interest against the final bill. If one or more people responsible for fees live outside the UK, there is a second overseas deposit, also half a term. A term’s written notice is required to leave, or to stop music, sport, LAMDA or art extras; otherwise fees in lieu.
A first-year place at the 2025–26 day rate is not “about £12,400.” It is application + half-term deposit + three terms — £43,714 before extras, or £56,128 if you also pay the overseas deposit, before you have bought a single music lesson. Recalculate when 2026–27 appears.
Scholarships are not academic. At 11+, music scholarships are awarded on a video, then a practical audition and interview; they are based on the value of lessons in one instrument or voice, £975 a year, for five years, after which the girl reapplies at 16+. Music exhibitions give mentoring and more music-making, not the lesson pot, also for five years at 11+ and two at 16+. An information evening for 11+ music scholarships 2027 sits on Tuesday 13 October. At 16+: art scholarships £250 a year (workshop, portfolio, interview; the candidate should be applying for A-Level art); drama scholarships £250 a year (audition, workshop, interview — A-Level drama is usual but a serious co-curricular commitment can be enough); music scholarships based on lessons worth £936 a year.
Bursaries are means-tested, from 5% of the fee up to 100%. The homepage’s 88 students on a bursary is about 11% of the school; the bursary page says the school wants that nearer 20%. Household income above £150,000 gross is “unlikely to be considered.” Owning a family home does not bar you; several extra properties usually does. Awards are reviewed every year. A 100% award also includes a one-off £500 on entry (£400 of that as a sports-kit contribution for MIV), one extra co-curricular tuition (music, LAMDA or PE), £500 a year for trips, travel on the school bus or TfL, £225 a year for textbooks, a school laptop, and public-examination fees. Awards of 75–95% and below 75% have their own published packages. Hardship bursaries exist for current families who hit a sudden change; they are usually short-term and are not a promise that GCSE support will continue into A-Level.
For 11+ 2027, mark bursary intent by 6 November 2026, 9am. The financial form follows in mid-December, due early January 2027. Home visits sit at the end of January or early February. The award (provisional) arrives with the place offer; a May 2027 income form confirms the 2027–28 figure. For 16+, the bursary page currently prints a Friday 25 September 2026, 9am deadline for September 2026 entry on one line and 2027 steps on the others — write to the Bursar and confirm which year you mean before you diary it.
Inspectors visited in February 2024. The school’s ISI page says all sections of the Standards were met. Published extracts include: pupils “are intellectually curious, have an enthusiasm for learning and make good progress from their starting points”; they “build trusting relationships and are happy, relaxed and behave notably well”; they helped write the school’s aims and see themselves as “bold in their ambitions, and serious, but having fun.” Teacher recruitment and professional development is quoted as a significant strength. The full 2024 PDF sits on the policies and reports page. Read that file yourself if you want more than the school’s extract.
Ask how long your door-to-door journey really is at 8am, not on a Saturday open morning. Ask whether a girl who arrives from a state primary without extra tutoring is a normal MIV, not an exception. Ask how many of the 15 sixth-form places are already spoken for by internal candidates — the school does not print that split, so you have to ask. Ask what school-directed art, drama, history of art and music actually look like on a university form. Ask the Bursar whether 2026–27 fees are out yet, and whether your household is even in range of the £150,000 test. Ask to see Year 7 and Year 12, not only the hall.
We are not ranking St Paul’s. We are not inventing a 2026–27 fee, a bus price, or a head’s name that is not on the pages we used. We are not treating homepage exam percentages as a promise. Confirm the live 11+ and 16+ calendars, the fees page, and the ISI PDF before you give notice at another school. This is a map. Brook Green still has to be the right Tuesday.
Pagine e documenti ufficiali che abbiamo letto. Se un numero conta per il bilancio o la domanda, aprite il link e controllate che sia ancora valido.
Orientamento amichevole, non una domanda. Date, rette e programmi si muovono. Confermate tutto con la scuola.
The useful London map is not a league table. It is which river, which leaving paper, and a commute you should time in January rain, not on Open Morning.
15 minLe lettere sul diploma contano. Non sono tutto il ragazzo. Ecco come distinguerle senza mal di testa, e senza fingere che ogni porta resti aperta.
16 minNon vi serve un algoritmo perfetto. Vi servono poche cose vere su vostro figlio, una lista un po’ noiosa sul frigo, e il coraggio di ignorare un bel campus che non vi sta.
15 minLa retta è il numero in homepage. Il PDF è quello che arriva a marzo. Ecco come leggere il secondo, senza inventare un euro, una corona o una scadenza.