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Herschel Grammar School

Herschel Grammar School in Slough is a mixed grammar school with 150 Year 7 places, one of four sharing the Slough Consortium test. A score of 111 makes a child eligible, and children living within 4 miles come first: for 2026 entry every eligible on-time applicant within 4 miles was offered a place, and the rest went by score.

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At a glance

Where
Slough, Berkshire
Takes
Mixed
Year 7 places
150
Applicants
1,068 for 2026 entry, about 7.1 for each place. This counts every Common Application Form naming the school, including children who didn’t reach 111.

Applicants figures aren’t counted the same way at every school, so they don’t compare from one school to another.

Admissions

The test

The Slough Consortium 11+, set by GL Assessment for the Slough Consortium of Grammar Schools (Herschel, Langley, St Bernard's and Upton Court): one test for all four schools, two papers of about 60 to 65 minutes covering verbal and non-verbal reasoning, English and maths.

What qualifies

A standardised score of 111 or above (the top 35% of those tested) makes a child eligible. For 2026 entry, every eligible on-time applicant living within 4 miles was offered a place, and the remaining places went in rank order of score down to 115.

Who gets priority

After children with an EHCP naming the school: (i) looked after and previously looked after children; (ii) the catchment area, a home within 4 miles of the school in a straight line from the front door to the school's main entrance gate, nearest first; (iii) up to 10 further places for pupil premium children living within 10 miles; (iv) children of staff with 2 years' service; (v) the remaining places in rank order of score, with equal scores ranked by distance. There is no sibling priority; ties are broken by distance and then by random allocation.

Registering

Online through the Consortium portal (https://slough.applicaa.com/entry2027) from 10am on Friday 1 May to 10am on Friday 5 June 2026, with a recent photo of the child; registering is not an application to any school. The test was on Saturday 19 September 2026 at the four grammar schools, results came out from 4pm on 15 October 2026, and the Common Application Form to the home council closed on 31 October 2026.

Open events

The Open Evening for September 2027 entry was on Wednesday 7 October 2026, 5pm to 8pm; the next one is in September 2027.

Good to know

Mixed 11 to 18 academy; the sixth form has a Year 12 admission number of 160 with a minimum of 10 places for external students (boys and girls). No supplementary form is needed; distance is measured from the address given at 11+ registration, which the family must have lived at from 1 May to 31 October 2026. The applicant figure counts every Common Application Form naming the school (794 of them had scored 111 or more), and Slough Borough Council's allocation table gives the same 1,068. About 4,757 children sat the Consortium test in September 2026; offers come on 1 March 2027, families can appeal a refusal but not the score, and the waiting list runs to 31 December 2027. The school says the September 2027 test (for 2028 entry) will be set by Quest Assessments, with the 111 eligibility score unchanged.

Read its admissions policy · The school’s website

The 11+ in Slough

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Sources

Every fact here comes from the official pages below. Admissions rules change each year, so check them there before you rely on them.

Checked 2 November 2026.

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