Southend High School for Boys

Priority area = Southend postcodes SS0–SS9. 150 of 180 places are reserved for qualifying boys living in these postcodes; the rest go by score regardless of address.

Source: SHSB admission arrangements (shsb.org.uk)

1. Looked after — Looked after children and previously looked after children
2. Medical social — Children with exceptional medical/social needs
3. Catchment feeder — Children from designated feeder primary schools or living in defined priority area
4. Sibling — Siblings of children on roll at the school
5. Other qualified — All other qualifying children — tiebreaker: distance (straight line, closest first)

Southend's grammar schools use the CSSE (Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex) shared 11+ exam: 1. English (60 minutes) — comprehension, applied reasoning and a short continuous-writing element, marked out of 60. 2. Mathematics (60 minutes) — Key Stage 2-based problems, marked out of 60. No verbal or non-verbal reasoning — CSSE tests curriculum English and maths only, with written (not purely multiple-choice) answers. One registration (csse.org.uk) and one mid-September sitting covers all CSSE schools across Southend and Essex. Scores are age-standardised, with a combined ~303+ historically the consideration threshold.

Of the 171-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).