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Thousands of practice questions and up to 6 mock papers, all in the exact Aylesbury High School 11+ format, on one simple plan. It starts with a free diagnostic.
Aylesbury High School
Aylesbury High School is a selective girls' grammar school in Buckinghamshire. It uses the GL exam board for its 11+ entry with no interview stage. The school has a defined catchment area, giving priority to local girls who achieve the qualifying score.
If you have a clever, busy daughter who comes alive when surrounded by others just like her, Aylesbury High School is the kind of place worth knowing about. It is a selective girls' grammar in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, running from eleven through to a substantial sixth form, and it draws families from right across the county via the school bus network — so the intake is broader than the postcode might suggest. Your daughter would arrive to find classmates who are every bit as motivated as she is. That sounds like a small thing. It isn't.
The school grew out of the old Aylesbury Grammar School, which split into two single-sex schools in 1959 — the boys' and girls' schools still sit on neighbouring sites in the east of town, which gives the area a pleasingly old-fashioned grammar school quarter feel. Aylesbury High is openly ambitious for its girls and wants them to leave as independent, confident young adults, but it pairs that ambition with genuine care. Parents speak of teachers who work hard to give their high-achieving teenagers real pastoral support, and of a school culture where nothing is taken for granted and where students and staff share a genuine appetite for success both inside and outside the classroom.
It suits a girl who will respond to being stretched while feeling properly looked after — academically serious without being joyless, and warm enough that a girl can be ambitious and still, reassuringly, be herself.
Key facts
Admissions
Admissions contact
office@ahs.bucks.sch.uk
Admissions phone
01296 388222
Registration form
https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/schools-and-learning/schools-index/school-admissions/grammar-schools-and-transfer-testing-11/register-for-the-secondary-transfer-test/
Sibling policy
What this school tests
Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test
English
- Punctuation
- Reading Comprehension - Comparison
- Reading Comprehension - Evaluation
- Reading Comprehension - Grammar and punctuation
- Reading Comprehension - Inference and Deduction
- Reading Comprehension - Information Retrieval
- Reading Comprehension - Language Techniques and Imagery
- Reading Comprehension - Sentence-level Comprehension
- Reading Comprehension - Sequencing
- Reading Comprehension - Structure, Form, Voice and Tone
- Reading Comprehension - Summarising
- Reading Comprehension - Text Classification and Purpose
- Reading Comprehension - Types of Words and Phrases
- Reading Comprehension - Word Meaning / Choice
- Sentence Completion
- Spelling
Maths
- Algebra
- Angles and Degrees
- BIDMAS
- Coordinate Grids
- Estimation and Rounding
- Factors and Multiples
- Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
- Magic squares
- Measurement
- Money
- Number and Place Value
- Number Walls
- Operations
- Perimeter, Area and Volume
- Position and Direction
- Properties of Shapes
- Ratio and Proportion
- Reflection, Rotation and Symmetry
- Sequences
- Special Numbers
- Speed, Distance and Time
- Statistics
- Time
Non-verbal Reasoning
- Extended Figure Series
- Figure Analogies
- Figure Matrices
- Figure Operations
- Figure Series
- Grid Matrices
- Horizontal Codes
- Most Like Three Figures
- Most Like Two Figures
- Odd Figure Out
- Star Matrices
- Triangle Matrices
- Triangle Series
- Vertical Codes
Verbal Reasoning
- Anagrams
- Compound Words
- Embedded Words
- Form a Word
- Insert a Letter
- Letter Analogies
- Letter Calculations
- Letter Codes
- Letter Grids
- Letter Sequences
- Move 1 / 2 Letters
- Number Analogies
- Number Calculations
- Number Sequences
- Related Words
- Rhyming Synonyms
- Shuffled Sentences
- Synonyms
- Word / Logic Puzzles
- Word Analogies
- Word Completion
- Word Match
- Word Opposites
- Word Pairs
- Word Relationships
- Words and Codes
Spatial Reasoning
- 2D Rotations
- Block Counting
- Combining Shapes
- Fold and Punch
- Folding Cubes
- Hidden Shapes
- Missing Face of Cube
- Shape Completion
Catchment area
Does Aylesbury High School have a catchment area?
Yes. The school has a defined catchment area (a map is published on the school's website, and Buckinghamshire Council provides a postcode checker). Among girls who reach the qualifying score, those living in the catchment area continuously from 1 September of the year before entry are given priority over equally qualified girls from outside it.
Selection review and safety net
Previous exam results
GCSE results
In 2025 students achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 74.3 across their GCSEs. 98.9% gained a grade 5 or better in both English and Maths. 55.8% achieved the English Baccalaureate at grade 5 or above.
Reference: https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/
A-level results
In 2025 students achieved a B+ average grade per A-Level entry. 33.3% gained AAB or better including two facilitating subjects.
Reference: https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/
Frequently asked questions
What exam board does Aylesbury High School use for the 11+?
Aylesbury High School uses the GL exam board for its 11+ entrance exam.
Does Aylesbury High School interview as part of the 11+ process?
No, Aylesbury High School does not include an interview stage as part of its 11+ entrance exam process.
Is Aylesbury High School a co-educational or single-sex school?
Aylesbury High School is a single-sex girls' grammar school.
Does Aylesbury High School have a catchment area for 11+ entry?
Yes, Aylesbury High School has a defined catchment area. Girls living within this area who achieve the qualifying score are given priority.
What is Aylesbury High School's official website?
The official website for Aylesbury High School is ahs.bucks.sch.uk.
How do you get a place at Aylesbury High School?
First a child needs to reach the required standard in the Bucks secondary transfer test, sat in the autumn of Year 6, or be passed at Selection Review. Qualifying does not guarantee a place. If more girls qualify than there are places, priority goes in order: looked-after and previously looked-after girls in catchment; Pupil Premium girls in catchment; a small group of near-miss Pupil Premium girls in catchment; sisters of girls at the school or boys at Aylesbury Grammar; children of staff; other in-catchment girls; then all other girls. Ties are settled by straight-line distance.
What happens if my child is ill on 11+ test day at Aylesbury High School?
The test is run by Buckinghamshire Council, so the illness rules are theirs. If your child is absent on test day, contact the council with evidence within three working days. Without a supported explanation she would be withdrawn from testing, so it is worth doing promptly. If she starts a paper but becomes too unwell to finish, she cannot re-sit that paper later. Access arrangements such as extra time or short breaks can be requested in advance by her primary headteacher where they match her normal way of working.
Location
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