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Dame Allan's School
Dame Allan's School is an independent, co-educational day school in Newcastle upon Tyne that uses Quest Admissions for its single-stage 11+ entrance exam. The admissions process also includes an interview stage for prospective Year 7 pupils. From September 2026, the school has transitioned to co-educational teaching for Year 7 entry.
If you looked at Dame Allan's a year or two ago and the single-sex teaching wasn't for you, look again. The school ran separate boys' and girls' schools through the middle years for about forty years and has now brought them together: from September 2026 Years 7 to 10 are taught co-educationally, with Year 11 staying single-sex until that group has finished its GCSEs. It is an independent day school in Newcastle upon Tyne for three to eighteen, with the junior school at Spital Tongues and the senior school and sixth form two miles west in Fenham.
It goes back to 1705, when Dame Eleanor Allan, a goldsmith's daughter and a tobacco merchant's widow, made a deed of gift to educate forty poor boys and twenty poor girls from two Newcastle parishes, funded by the income from a farm at Wallsend. Girls were in the founding gift rather than added later. The schools moved around the city for two centuries, picking up one of Newcastle's first physics laboratories on the way, and arrived in Fenham in 1935.
A child joining Year 7 changes site as well as school, into senior classes of about twenty-four. There are nearly two hundred clubs a week, and the school says pupils who cannot find one they want are helped to start it. Pastoral care includes a room called the Snug, opened in 2022, for a child who needs somewhere quiet, and a set of therapy dogs. The Good Schools Guide found 'no arrogance or entitlement among students at Dame Allan's, just pride in their school and gratitude for their opportunities', and one parent called it 'the least private of private schools'. It suits a child who wants a school with some age to it and no side.
Key facts
Annual fees
Years 7-11 and Sixth Form both £7,143 per term for 2026/27, inclusive of VAT and including books and external exam entry fees. One shared fee schedule covers the whole Senior School, with no separate boys' or girls' rate. The governors confirmed a 3.5% increase for 2026/27. Registration fee £50.
Admissions
Admissions contact
dasadmissions@dameallans.co.uk
Admissions phone
0191 275 0608
Registration form
https://dameallans.openapply.com/apply
Sibling policy
What this school tests
Entrance Assessments
English
- Grammar
- 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
- Spelling
- Vocabulary
Maths
- Algebra
- Angles and Degrees
- BIDMAS
- Coordinate Grids
- Estimation and Rounding
- Factors and Multiples
- Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
- Measurement
- Money
- Number and Place Value
- 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
- Figure Analogies
- Figure Matrices
- Figure Series
- Grid Matrices
- Horizontal Codes
- Match to a Group of Figures
- Most Like Three Figures
- Odd Figure Out
- Odd Shaped Matrices
- Star Matrices
- Triangle Matrices
- Vertical Codes
Verbal Reasoning
- Alphabet Logic
- Anagrams
- Compound Words
- Embedded Words
- Form a Word
- Insert 2 / 3 Letters
- Insert a Letter
- Letter Analogies
- Letter Sequences
- Move 1 / 2 Letters
- Ordering Words
- Rhyming Synonyms
- Shuffled Sentences
- Synonyms
- Word / Logic Puzzles
- Word Analogies
- Word Completion
- Word Match
- Word Opposites
- Word Pairs
- Word Relationships
- Word Swap
- Words and Codes
Spatial Reasoning
- 2D Rotations
- 2D View of 3D Shape
- 3D Rotations
- Block Counting
- Building Blocks
- Combining Shapes
- Diagonal Reflections
- Figure Missing from Image
- Fold and Punch
- Folding Cubes
- Hidden Shapes
- Missing Face of Cube
- Nets of 3D Shapes
- Shape Completion
Catchment area
Selection review and safety net
Previous exam results
GCSE results
2026: 26% of all grades at grade 9 and 64.6% at 7-9, across a Year 11 cohort of 148 pupils. Results are published jointly for the Boys' and Girls' Schools (school's own published figures).
A-level results
2025 (no 2026 set published yet): a 99.8% pass rate with 78.6% of grades at A*-B, against 99.7% and 70.3% in 2024 (school's own published figures).
Frequently asked questions
Which exam board does Dame Allan's School use for the 11+?
Dame Allan's School uses Quest Admissions for its 11+ entrance exam.
Does Dame Allan's School interview candidates for Year 7 entry?
Yes, there is an interview stage as part of the admissions process at Dame Allan's School.
Is Dame Allan's School co-educational or single-sex?
Dame Allan's School is co-educational, with Years 7 to 10 taught co-educationally from September 2026.
What are the school fees for Dame Allan's School?
For the 2026/27 academic year, fees are £7,143 per term, which includes VAT, books, and external exam entry fees. There is also a registration fee of £50.
What is the website for Dame Allan's School?
The official website for the school is https://www.dameallans.co.uk/.
Location
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