Criteria for Admission

Our Admissions
Guide for Parents
September 2024 Admissions

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Queen’s Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 4DQ

Telephone Number 020 8441 4646

Admissions Officer Extension 2300
E-mail [email protected]

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Establishment Number 302 5401

School Status Academy
Headmaster Mr N.J. Enright MA (Oxon), MBA, FRSA
Chairman of Governors Mr B.R. Martin MBE, FRICS, IRRV

A day, selective school for boys aged 11-18

The following information can be found on the School’s website:

• P ublic examination results and other statistical information

• School inspection reports

Please contact the School if you would like a paper copy

of these documents.

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Introduction
Applying to Queen Elizabeth's School

Thank you for the interest you have shown in Queen Elizabeth’s School.
We hope you have enjoyed reading all the information in the School
brochure and on the School’s website, and have found it helpful.
QE is a state school like no other, offering bright boys the opportunity
to benefit from an education that will develop and challenge them
academically, while also providing superb extra-curricular opportunities
and inculcating an ethic of service and philanthropy.

This booklet is divided into two parts: the first section (pp2-7) sets
out our approved Criteria for Admission; the second (pp8-18) is our
Admissions Guide for Parents. The Admissions Guide gives information
about the entrance tests and the application processes. It includes key
dates for the 2024 intake, as well as some important dos and don’ts.

If you do decide that you wish to apply for a place at the School
for your son, please take the time to read the whole of this booklet
carefully in order to give him the best possible chance of gaining
a place. I wish you and your son every success in his education.

Neil Enright, Headmaster

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Criteria
for Admission
in September 2024
Queen Elizabeth's is a designated grammar school, and is a selective,
single-sex, non-denominational school with academy status, providing
education for boys from the age of 11 to 18.

The Published Admission Number (PAN) for admissions at age 11

for the year commencing September 2024 is 180.

Parents who are considering applying for a place at the School for their
son should read carefully both these criteria and the Admissions Guide
for Parents (pp8-18) in order to give him the best chance possible.

The Governors will work closely with the local authority and participate
fully in their scheme for coordinated admissions.

Consideration will be given initially to those applicants whose Common

Application Forms are submitted and received before the published
deadline, and places allocated accordingly. Only then will the Governors
consider applications received after the deadline.

Repeat applications will not be considered in the same academic year.

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Requests to sit the entrance tests

Pupils will be admitted at age 11 with reference to their suitability

for the nature of the education offered by the School. All places
will be allocated on the basis of academic ability, established
by selection tests to be held in the autumn prior to the year of
admission. All entrance tests will be taken at the venue designated
by the School.

Parents will be required to complete an entrance test request form to

indicate their wish for their son to sit the selection tests. Each candidate
will sit two tests on the same day. The scores for each test will be standardised,
and then combined. Those candidates achieving the combined score set out
in the Admissions Guide for Parents (pp8-18) or higher than this score, will be
deemed to have met the standard required by the Governors to be eligible
to be considered for admission to the School. Achieving this standard is
not a guarantee that a place will be offered.

Prior to the deadline for making applications to schools, parents will be

informed of the outcome of the selection tests. They will be told either that:

i) 
Their son has achieved a score which meets the standard required by
the Governors, and is therefore eligible to be considered for admission
to the School

or that:

ii) Their son has achieved a score which does not meet the standard required
by the Governors, and that he is therefore not eligible to be considered for
admission to the School.

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Applications for places at the School

All applicants for places at the School must complete a Common

Application Form and return it to their home local authority.

If 180 applicants or more have achieved the standard required by the

Governors, places will be offered to the 180 applicants placed highest
in the list obtained by ranking applicants in the order of their combined
scores in the selection tests.

In the event of two or more applicants scoring the same mark, the rank
order for allocation of places will be determined by the distance measured
in a straight line between the address point for the child’s home, supplied
by Ordnance Survey, and the main School gate, with the closest given the
highest rank. (The child’s home means the child’s permanent address and
cannot be a childminder’s or business address. It should be the same address
as would be given by the child’s primary school. When parents live separately,
the application must be based on the address at which the child usually lives
and from which he attends primary school. When parents live separately but
the child lives equally with both parents at different addresses, the address
will be taken to be the address of the main parent/carer eligible to receive
Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit).

Should this process leave two or more applicants still tied for the
final available place, the applicant to whom the place will be offered
will be determined by a random ballot, supervised by a person who
is independent of the School.

If fewer than 180 applicants have achieved the standard required by

the Governors, places will remain unfilled and available for allocation
at a later date to applicants who do meet the required standard.

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Waiting list

Applicants who have achieved the standard required by the Governors,

but have not been offered a place at the School, will be put on a waiting
list in the rank order of their combined test scores.

In the event of two or more applicants scoring the same mark, the rank order
for the waiting list will be determined by the distance measured in a straight
line between the front door of the applicant’s home (as defined above) and
the main School gate, with the closest given the highest rank.

Applicants who achieved a combined test score higher than that of the
lowest-ranked applicant to be offered a place on National Offer Day, but
who were offered a place at a school which they had ranked higher than
Queen Elizabeth’s in their list of preferences, will not be included on the
waiting list unless their home local authority agrees to a change in their
preference order. Should it be necessary to add an applicant to the waiting
list at any stage, the list will be re-ranked according to the combined test
scores achieved. Any places which become available will be offered to those
on the waiting list in accordance with these admissions criteria. The waiting
list will be maintained until 31st December 2024.

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Appeals against non-admission

The Governors will establish arrangements for appeals from those

parents who have applied for their son to be admitted to the School,
but have not been offered a place, to be heard by an Independent
Appeals Panel.

Admission at ages other than 11

There is only one formal point of admission to the School and this is
at age 11 on secondary transfer. Parents seeking admission for a child
outside the normal age range on secondary transfer should contact
the School before following the same arrangements set out in this guide
for those admitted to their normal age group. Applications will only
be processed if they have been accepted by the home local authority
of the applicant.

Pupils whose parents apply for a place in Years 7-11 at a later stage may
be admitted only if a vacancy occurs and if that pupil's academic ability,
as determined by entrance tests, meets the requirements of the Governors.
The admissions criteria and waiting list procedure are as stated above.
Parents wishing to apply for a place in Years 7-11 after the normal point
of intake should contact the School for advice on the correct procedure.
There is no formal point of admission into the Sixth Form.

The local authority may exceptionally require the School to admit a child
who is of the necessary academic standard, either outside the normal
admission arrangements or in excess of the published admission limit.

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Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet 7
Our
Admissions
Guide
for Parents
The following information is not part of the statutory admissions
criteria for the School, but is intended to give parents guidance
about the entrance tests and the applications process.
The statutory criteria take precedence in all circumstances.

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Entrance Tests

Booking a place to sit the tests

1st May to
In order for your son to be invited to sit the entrance tests, you will need
14th July to complete an entrance test request form. From Monday 1st May 2023
2023 the form can be accessed and submitted electronically from the admissions
section of the School’s website. Paper forms are available on request.

The deadline for submission of entrance test request forms is noon on

Friday 14th July 2023. Please note that if your form is received after this
deadline, it will not be possible to invite your son to sit the entrance tests.

An electronic acknowledgement is sent for all entrance test request forms

received at the School. If you believe you have submitted an entrance
test request form but have not received the electronic acknowledgement,
you must contact the School before the deadline for submissions above.
Once the deadline has passed, we are unable to deal with any queries
about entrance test request forms unless they are accompanied by
a valid acknowledgement of receipt.

What to expect on the day

20th and 21st
The entrance tests will take place on Wednesday 20th and Thursday
September 21st September, 2023. Details of the arrangements for the tests will be
2023 confirmed approximately one week before this date. (Reserve entrance
tests will take place on Wednesday 27th September 2023, but note that this
date is only available for boys who were unable to attend the entrance tests
on 20th and 21st September due to illness or another approved reason.)

Each candidate will sit two test papers in a single session. Both will be in
a multiple-choice format, one containing questions on English, and the
other questions on Mathematics.

We are very aware that young boys can be nervous on such occasions,
and we do our best to put all the candidates at their ease.

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After the Entrance Tests

22nd
Marking and scores
September to After the tests are completed, they will be marked and the scores
achieved will be standardised, taking account of the ages of the
2nd October candidates. The scores from the two tests will be combined to
2023 produce a single, overall entrance test score for each candidate.

Those candidates achieving a combined score of 220 or higher

will be deemed to have met the standard required by the Governors
to be eligible to be considered for admission to the School.

Eligible for admission

2nd October We will write to you in October 2023 (our provisional date is Monday
2nd October) to inform you that either:
2023
i) 
Your son has achieved a score which meets the standard required
by the Governors, and is therefore eligible to be considered for
admission to the School

or:

ii) Y
 our son has achieved a score which does not meet the standard
required by the Governors, and is therefore not eligible to be
considered for admission to the School.

Unfortunately, every year we receive a number of applications from families

whose sons did not reach the minimum score required. We would like to
remind parents that under the terms of the admissions criteria set out
above, such candidates cannot be considered for admission to the School.

Book a tour
Early to
If your son has achieved a score in the entrance tests which meets the
mid-October standard required by the Governors, you may be invited to book a tour
2023 to see the School during working hours in early to mid-October 2023.
The tour booking form will be available on our website from Tuesday
3rd October 2023.

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QE and the Coordinated
Admissions Scheme

Completing the Common

Late October Application Form
2023 Queen Elizabeth’s School participates in the scheme for coordinated
admissions which is operated by local authorities. The coordinated
admissions process begins with the submission of applications in the
autumn before your son is due to start secondary school, and offers
of places are sent out by local authorities on National Offer Day,
which is 1st March each year (unless this falls on a weekend).

Once you have been notified of the outcome of the entrance tests, if
you wish to apply for a place for your son at Queen Elizabeth’s, you must
complete a Common Application Form, which can be obtained from your
local authority. This form, naming Queen Elizabeth’s, should be completed
carefully and returned to your local authority by its published deadline.

• On this form you will be able to state the names of the schools
to which you are applying in order of preference.
• The order of preference in which you rank the schools will not
be passed on to the schools themselves.
• The local authority will look at your rank order of preference if more
than one of your applications is successful. In other words, you will
be offered a place at the school which you have ranked highest
(provided your application meets that school’s admissions criteria).
You are therefore strongly advised to rank the schools to which
you are applying in your genuine order of preference.
• Because we normally receive a large number of applications for our
places, parents sometimes worry that if they put Queen Elizabeth’s
School as their first choice and their son does not then secure a
place here, they could be disadvantaged in their applications to
other schools. However, this is not the case. If you place QE as your
first preference and then you are not offered a place, you will not
jeopardise your chances of being given a place at other schools
November you have named.
2023 – Once the list of applicants has been compiled, the School will rank
February it in the order of the combined scores achieved in the entrance tests.
The list will then be returned to the local authority so that places can
2024 be offered, up to the Published Admission Number of 180, within the
scheme for coordinated admissions.

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 Offer day
1st March On Friday 1st March 2024, your local authority and Queen Elizabeth’s School
will both write to you. You will be informed either that your son has been
2024 offered a place at the School, or that we are unable to offer your son a
place at that time, but that (provided he has met the standard required by
the Governors) his name has been placed on the waiting list.
In the latter case, you will be told your son’s position on the waiting list.
Please see the admissions criteria above on page 5 for information on
the waiting list.

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Will my son receive a place?

We must emphasise that meeting the standard required by the Governors

is not a guarantee that a place at the School will be offered.

The Published Admission Number for admission to Year 7 is 180, but a glance
at the table below will show that many more than 180 boys are likely this year
to reach the standard required by the Governors. Furthermore, because of the
rising number of applicants in recent years, the lowest score needed to gain
a boy admission to the School has also been rising. Therefore we would also
stress that achieving a score which has enabled an applicant to gain admission to
the School in a previous year is no guarantee that a place will be offered for 2024.

Year of Admission Number taking Number reaching Number of Lowest score

(September) entrance tests minimum applicants* gaining admission
standard required (excluding appeals)

2018 2401 861 933 229

2019 2789 1034 1077 232

2020 2846 1013 997 229

2021 2928 1047 963 232

2022 3042 1096 974 234

The table gives data for the last five complete admission cycles, which were all administered under the same criteria as are currently
adopted by the Governors.

* The numbers in this column sometimes exceed the number reaching the minimum standard because some
parents whose sons failed to reach the required score went ahead with their applications, even though such
applications cannot be successful.

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Points to note

Don’t miss out!

If you do not complete a Common Application Form naming Queen
Elizabeth’s as one of your preferred schools and return it to your local
authority by the specified date, then even if your son has taken our
entrance tests and performed well in them, your local authority will
not offer him a place here at any stage of the coordinated admissions
process, as no application for a place at the School will have been made.

It is therefore essential that your application is submitted by the published

deadline, as we have no discretion whatsoever if an application is received
after this. Consideration will be given initially to applications received before
the published deadline and places allocated accordingly. Only then will the
Governors consider any late applications received after the deadline.

Pupils with disabilities

All our places without exception are allocated on the basis of academic ability.
The Governors are anxious to ensure that no parent who has a child with
a disability is dissuaded from making an application to the School. If your
son has a disability and may require particular arrangements to be made
during the assessment process, please provide the relevant information
on the entrance test request form, (published on Monday 1st May 2023)
as we do not want any candidate to be disadvantaged in any way. A paper
copy of the School’s Equal Opportunities Policy is available on request.

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Points to note Cont'd

Withdrawal of places
Please be aware that checks may be undertaken to ensure that a pupil
admitted to the School is the boy who was named on the application form
and who undertook the assessment procedures. If a place is secured on
the basis of a fraudulent application which effectively denies admission to
a child with a stronger claim, then that place will be immediately withdrawn.

Appeals
Those parents who have applied to the School but have not been offered
a place for their son may, if they wish, appeal to an independent Appeals
Panel established by the Governing Body. Details of appeal arrangements
and procedures will be sent to parents who request them in writing.

A timetable for the appeals process will be placed on the School’s website.

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Summary

To apply for a place at Queen Elizabeth’s School,

you must:
• 
Complete an entrance test request form and return it to the School
by noon on 14th July 2023.

• 
Once you have been notified that your son has reached the Governors’
required standard in the entrance tests, complete a Common Application
Form naming Queen Elizabeth’s as one of your preferred schools, and
return it to your local authority by its published deadline.

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Key dates for 2024 intake

Monday 1st May 2023 Entrance test request forms available

Thursday 6th July 2023 School Open Day

Friday 14th July 2023 (noon) Date by which entrance test request forms
must be received at the School

Friday 21st July to School closed for summer holiday – please

Monday 4th September 2023 note that it may not be possible to address
queries raised during this period nor to
respond to telephone calls

Wednesday 20th and Entrance tests

Thursday 21st September 2023

Wednesday 27th September 2023 Reserve entrance tests (This date is only
available for those children who were
unable to attend the entrance tests on
20th and 21st September due to illness
or another approved reason.)

Monday 2nd October 2023* Entrance test outcomes sent to parents

As published by your home Deadline for submission of Common

local authority Application Forms

Friday 1st March 2024 National Offer Day

* This date is provisional

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