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Thousands of practice questions and up to 6 mock papers, all in the exact Northampton High School 11+ format, on one simple plan. It starts with a free diagnostic.
Northampton High School
Northampton High School is an independent day school for girls in Northamptonshire that uses Quest Admissions for its single-stage 11+ entrance exam. The assessment is conducted online in January following a taster day in November, with no interview stage required for entry. Annual fees for the Senior School are #7,080 per term (plus a compulsory lunch charge of #336 per term) for the 2026/27 academic year.
If you picture a girls' high school as Victorian brick in the middle of town, this is not that. Northampton High moved out of the town centre in 1992 onto twenty-seven purpose-built acres at Hardingstone, on the southern edge of Northampton, and everything from the nursery to the sixth form now sits on that one green site. It is an independent day school for girls from two to eighteen, part of the Girls' Day School Trust. Entry at eleven is an online assessment in January, after a taster day in November.
It started on 2 May 1878 as the Northampton Middle-Class Girls' School, with twenty pupils in Abington Street, and spent the next century collecting town houses one at a time before consolidating onto the present site. The four houses are named after Greek goddesses, Artemis, Demeter, Hestia and Selene, and compete each term at things including House Singing and Drama. Most girls arrive on the school's own minibuses, which serve more than 190 stops across three counties, with a late service from a quarter past five for anyone staying on for sport.
Sport is the thing to weigh up. There is a floodlit all-weather pitch, six outdoor courts, an indoor twenty-five metre pool, and a partnership with Northampton Town Football Club, extended by five years in August 2026, which brings weekly coaching and a route into the club's talent pathway. The Good Schools Guide calls it 'a small, polished and spacious school known for its academics and sports', and is candid that on 'whether the school is a comfortable place for the less sporty, the jury is out'. There is also a forest school with a mud kitchen. It suits a girl who will use the space.
Key facts
Annual fees
Senior School (Years 7-13) £7,080 per term for 2026/27, plus a compulsory lunch charge of £336 per term, giving £7,416. The fee table does not state VAT treatment for core tuition; only the separate Reception to Year 2 holiday childcare option is marked VAT exempt. Registration fee £120 on application (£240 including VAT for international applicants); £500 deposit on acceptance, refunded at graduation. Exam fees are charged in Years 11 and 13. International applicants also pay a £3,240 enrolment fee including VAT.
Admissions
Admissions contact
nhs.admissions@nhs.gdst.net
Admissions phone
01604 765765
Registration form
https://northamptonhighschoolgdst.applicaa.com/9
Sibling policy
What this school tests
Year 7 Entrance Assessments (Online)
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
Puzzles And Problem Solving
- Number Properties & Proportion
- Logic & Systematic Thinking
- Geometry, Measures & Data
- Equations & Early Algebra
- Magic Shapes & Additive Puzzles
- Calculation Fluency
Critical Thinking
- Logical & Deductive Reasoning
- Inference & Evaluation
- Extracting & Distilling Information
- Visual Sources
- Comparison & Ordering
- Data Analysis
- Codes & Decoding
Catchment area
Selection review and safety net
Previous exam results
GCSE results
2025: 21% of grades at 9, 40% at 9-8 and 58% at 9-7, against national figures the school gives as 5%, 12% and 22% (school's own published figures).
A-level results
2026: 42% of grades at A*-A and 81% at A*-B against a national 56%, with 29% of students achieving at least one A* (school's own published figures).
Frequently asked questions
What exam board does Northampton High School use for the 11+?
Northampton High School uses the Quest Admissions exam board for its 11+ online assessment.
Is there an interview stage for 11+ entry at Northampton High School?
No, there is no interview stage as part of the 11+ admissions process at Northampton High School.
What are the fees for Northampton High School?
For the 2026/27 academic year, Senior School fees are #7,080 per term, plus a compulsory #336 lunch charge per term. There is also a #120 registration fee on application and a #500 deposit on acceptance.
Is Northampton High School co-educational or single-sex?
Northampton High School is an independent day school for girls aged two to eighteen.
What is Northampton High School's website?
The official website for the school is https://www.northamptonhigh.co.uk/.
Location
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