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Ewell Castle School
Ewell Castle School is an independent, co-educational day school in Surrey that uses the Quest Admissions exam board for its single-stage 11+ entrance exam. There is no interview stage in the Year 7 admissions process. The school is located in Ewell village and welcomes both boys and girls, though boys currently outnumber girls by approximately two to one.
If your child would rather be somewhere unshowy, Ewell Castle is worth a visit. It is an independent co-educational day school for four to eighteen in Ewell village, Surrey, with just over six hundred pupils across four buildings within a few minutes' walk of each other. Worth knowing before you go: it began as a boys' school in 1926 and boys still outnumber girls by roughly two to one, so a daughter would be joining a mixed school that is still visibly boy-heavy.
The senior school is in the Castle itself, a battlemented Gothic Revival house from the 1810s with a clock tower and octagonal corner turrets, on ground that was once part of Henry VIII's hunting land at Nonsuch. The school opened on 19 January 1926 with forty boys and still keeps Founder's Day on that date. The prep school sits across the road in Glyn House, which the Good Schools Guide notes is 'separated from the senior school by a road and a church (where resides a cat, a regular visitor)'.
The day runs half past eight to four, with early care from ten to eight and after-school care at the prep until six. Phones go into locked pouches for the whole day in Years 7 to 11. Children keep the same house, each named after a castle, from prep right through, and the whole of Year 7 goes to Chessington World of Adventures in the second week of the autumn term. The Guide calls it 'a modest, friendly and inclusive school' that 'may lack the wow factor of some of its rivals but nonetheless offers something very special', and one parent described the parents as 'nice, not flashy'. It suits a child who does not want to be sized up.
Key facts
Annual fees
Senior School (Years 7-13) £9,033 per term for 2026/27, inclusive of VAT. Non-refundable registration fee £180 including VAT, payable by bank transfer. Deposit £1,800 on acceptance.
Admissions
Admissions contact
admissions@ewellcastle.co.uk
Admissions phone
020 8394 3570
Registration form
https://www.ewellcastle.co.uk/admissions/applications-downloads/
Sibling policy
What this school tests
Quest Online 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
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
Puzzles And Problem Solving
- Number Properties & Proportion
- Logic & Systematic Thinking
- Geometry, Measures & Data
- Equations & Early Algebra
- Magic Shapes & Additive Puzzles
- Calculation Fluency
Catchment area
Selection review and safety net
Previous exam results
GCSE results
2026: 96.2% of grades at 9-4, 46% at 9-7, with 98% of pupils achieving five or more grades at 9-4 and 36% achieving at least one grade 9 (school's own published figures).
A-level results
2026: 21% of grades at A*-A, 48% at A*-B, 79% at A*-C and a 100% pass rate (school's own published figures).
Frequently asked questions
What exam board does Ewell Castle School use for the 11+?
Ewell Castle School uses the Quest Admissions exam board for its 11+ entrance assessment.
Is there an interview stage for 11+ entry at Ewell Castle School?
No, there is no interview stage as part of the 11+ admissions process at Ewell Castle School.
Is Ewell Castle School co-educational or single-sex?
Ewell Castle School is a co-educational school, though boys currently outnumber girls by roughly two to one.
What are the senior school fees for Ewell Castle School?
For the 2026/27 academic year, senior school fees are £9,033 per term, inclusive of VAT. There is also a non-refundable registration fee of £180 and an acceptance deposit of £1,800.
What is the website for Ewell Castle School?
The official website for the school is https://www.ewellcastle.co.uk/.
Location
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