Newstead Wood School

Orpington, BR6 9SA · Bromley grammar school

Ofsted: Outstanding Girls
Test board
Consortium: N/A. St Olave's and Newstead Wood each set their own entrance tests

Ofsted judgement breakdown (2022-02-02)

Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision (where applicable)
Outstanding

Oversubscription criteria

  1. Looked after — Looked After/Previously Looked After Children at/above the required standard
  2. Pupil premium 9mile — Girls within a 9-mile radius of the school in receipt of Pupil Premium/Service Premium, at/above the required standard
  3. Within 9mile and staff — Girls within the 9-mile radius, plus staff children (≥2 years employed) living outside it, ranked by score
  4. Outside 9mile — Girls outside the 9-mile radius, ranked by score

What the entrance test covers

Bromley's two grammar schools test separately: 1. Newstead Wood School (girls) — GL Assessment: two multiple-choice papers in verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning, each around 50-60 minutes, taken on the same day with a short break. 2. St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (boys) — TWO STAGES: Stage 1 is a one-hour Selective Eligibility Test of roughly 60 multiple-choice questions across four sections; the top-scoring boys (historically around 450) are invited to Stage 2 in November — two one-hour written papers taken on the same day. Offers are based on Stage 2 performance plus the school's oversubscription criteria. Registration deadlines differ (Newstead Wood closes end of June; St Olave's window is short, in June) — check both schools' pages early in Year 5.

University destinations

Oxbridge
10%
Russell Group
56%
Top-third university
69%
Any degree
95%

Of the 147-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.

House prices nearby

Median price, Farnborough & Crofton ward (Year ending Mar 2023)
£610,000

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).

Data sourced from GIAS, Ofsted and official Bromley admissions publications. Figures can change year to year — always confirm with the school before applying.

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