Reading School

Category 3 of the 2027-entry policy: up to 50% of remaining places (after Looked-After/Pupil Premium/Sporting Aptitude) prioritise boys at the 76 named state primary schools within 4.6 miles of the Erleigh Road gate, ranked by entrance exam score. The named-primary list is in feeder_schools. The wider catchment area (Category 5) is a designated area map published by the school.

Source: Reading School admissions policy 2027 entry

1. Looked after — Category 1: (Previously) Looked After Children, with a score up to 5 marks below the eligible score
2. Pupil premium catchment — Category 2: Pupil or Service Premium children living within the catchment area, score up to 5 marks below eligible score
3. Medical social catchment — Category 3: Children within the catchment area with a demonstrated significant social or welfare need (written professional evidence required)
4. Sporting aptitude — Category 4: Up to 15 places for children (living in catchment, or registered for boarding) who pass the eligible score and exceed the Sporting Aptitude threshold, ranked by Sporting Aptitude Assessment score
5. Catchment — Category 5: Children whose permanent home address is within the catchment area
6. Out of catchment — Category 6: Children whose permanent home address is NOT within the catchment area

Reading School (boys) and Kendrick School (girls) each set their OWN, DIFFERENT entrance test — there is no single shared 'Reading test'. Kendrick School uses GL Assessment: two one-hour multiple-choice papers with a short break, covering four subjects — English (reading comprehension, spelling, punctuation, grammar; KS2 up to start of Year 6), Maths (number, measurement, geometry, statistics; KS2 up to start of Year 6), Verbal Reasoning, and Non-Verbal Reasoning. Reading School has used a different format since September 2025 (for 2026 entry onwards), set by FSCE (Future Stories Community Enterprise, a subsidiary of Reading School): four papers — Adventure Paper (multiple-choice, drawing on KS2 subjects including English, maths, science, geography, history), Beacon Paper (short written-response questions across a similar subject range), Compass Paper (a second multiple-choice paper with a different subject focus), and Discovery Paper (a creative task assessing original thinking and problem-solving — only marked if the child reaches an eligible score on Papers 1-3). Covers KS2 subjects up to the end of the Year 5 programme of study, including Art & Design, Languages, Computing, Design & Technology, Music, PE, Geography, Science and History, alongside English and Maths.

Of the 166-student 2019/20 leaver cohort, sustaining a higher-education destination the following year. This is the last cohort the Department for Education published with an Oxbridge/Russell Group breakdown — these categories were discontinued as official accountability measures after this release, so a more recent figure does not exist.

Median price for the school's electoral ward, year ending March 2023 — a neighbourhood-level indicator, not the school's actual admissions catchment (catchments are often smaller than a ward or span parts of several).

Entry requirement: Minimum 56 points across best 8 GCSEs, with grade 5+ in Mathematics and English Language (54 points for pupil premium/service premium/looked-after children). Minimum subject-specific requirements also apply per the Sixth Form Information Booklet.

Open evening: Sixth Form Open Day scheduled for Wednesday 25 November 2026; tickets bookable from 16 October 2026.

Source: school's own admissions page. Entry requirements are set independently by each school and reviewed annually — always confirm current-year figures directly with the school.

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