How to apply
Enquiries are welcome at any time although the majority of pupils join at the start of the academic year in September.
• Please telephone 01284 385308 to check the availability of a place and to arrange a visit to the School.
• To register your interest, please complete and return the Registration Form and a non-returnable registration fee.
Download a Culford Registration Form
A non-refundable registration fee of £75 is payable by all prior to assessments/entrance examinations.
Pupils aged 13 and 14+ years
• For places in September at 13+ years:
We will write to you in the preceding October to make arrangements for Entrance Examinations and interviews in January.
• For places for 13 and 14 year olds at any other time of year:
We will make individual arrangements for your child to take Entrance Examinations.
Pupils aged 16+ years (Sixth Form)
• For places in the Sixth Form in the following September at 16+ years:
Provisional places are offered to UK students on the basis of predicted grades at GCSE.
Places are offered to all overseas students on the basis of 16+ Entrance Examinations in English as an Additional Language and Mathematics together with their current school reports.
• Places are offered on the basis of performance in the examinations and a formal interview, together with a report from the pupil's previous school.
• If your child is successful, we will formally offer a place at the School, on standard terms and conditions, from an agreed date. A formal contract is secured by an acceptance fee of £300 for a day pupil, £500 for a boarding pupil, or £750 for an overseas boarder.
• To confirm your acceptance of the place you return the signed form and the acceptance fee and we reserve a guaranteed place at the School.