Kendrick School

1. Looked after — Looked after child or previously looked after child (lower qualifying score, 5 marks below standard threshold)
2. Pupil premium priority area — In receipt of Pupil/Service Premium on 31 Aug, permanent home address within Priority Area 1 or 2 (lower qualifying score)
3. Priority area 1 and 2 — Up to 75% of places (96 of 128): permanent home address within Priority Area 1 or 2, by rank order of score
4. Priority area 1 — Remaining 25% (32 places), tranche 1: permanent home address within Priority Area 1, by rank order
5. Priority area 2 — Remaining 25% (32 places), tranche 2: permanent home address within Priority Area 2, by rank order
6. Outside designated area — Applicants whose permanent home address is NOT in the designated area (Priority Area 1 or 2), by rank order

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 121-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).