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Thousands of practice questions and up to 6 mock papers, all in the exact Norwich High School for Girls 11+ format, on one simple plan. It starts with a free diagnostic.
Norwich High School for Girls
Norwich High School for Girls is an independent day school in Norfolk for girls aged three to eighteen. The 11+ entrance process consists of two stages, utilizing Quest Admissions and independent exam boards, with no interview stage. Annual fees for Years 7-10 are #7,272 per term for 2026/27 (inclusive of VAT), plus a compulsory #300 termly lunch charge.
Norwich High is worth a look for parents who want their daughter to have space in the week for things that aren't marked or measured. In 2024, it rebuilt the timetable to create an extra Friday period and gave it to every girl in Years 7 to 9 for cookery, forest school and financial awareness, with no assessment attached. It is an independent day school for girls from three to eighteen, part of the Girls' Day School Trust, on a single fourteen-acre campus on Newmarket Road in central Norwich.
It opened on Monday 22 February 1875 with sixty-one girls in Churchman House on St Giles, the first school the Trust founded outside London. From 1876 it spent over fifty years in the Assembly House, the Georgian building in the middle of Norwich that families now go to for concerts, before buying Eaton Grove on Newmarket Road in 1933. That house is a listed Regency villa with a cupola and a weather vane on the roof, and once a year the school opens it, its serpentine garden wall and its own archives to anyone who wants to walk in.
The four houses are named after Norfolk women, Edith Cavell, Elizabeth Fry, Julian of Norwich and Harriet Martineau, and run vertically from the nursery to the upper sixth, so a Year 7 shares a house with three-year-olds and eighteen-year-olds. Girls can be in from half past seven for breakfast, and the library is supervised until six. Phones go in lockers all day. Entry at eleven is an online test, a creative writing paper, a group activity and an interview, into a year of three forms of about twenty-two. Pupils told the Good Schools Guide, 'We know the staff and they know us.' It suits a girl who wants to be known by name in a school that still has some scale to it.
Key facts
Annual fees
Years 7-10 £7,272 per term for 2026/27, inclusive of VAT, plus a compulsory lunch charge of £300 per term, giving a published termly total of £7,572. Registration fee £120 including VAT; deposit £500 due on acceptance of a place.
Admissions
Admissions contact
admissions@nor.gdst.net
Admissions phone
01603 453265
Registration form
https://norwichhighschoolgdst.applicaa.com/enquiry
Sibling policy
What this school tests
Online Placement Test
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
Creative Writing
English
- Creative Writing - Descriptive
- Creative Writing - Narrative
- Creative Writing - Personal
- Creative Writing - Persuasive
Catchment area
Selection review and safety net
Previous exam results
GCSE results
2026: 22% of grades at 9, 42% at 9-8, 63% at 9-7, 77% at 9-6 and 97% at 9-4. The school's news post gives 41% rather than 42% at 9-8 (school's own published figures).
A-level results
2026: 16% of grades at A*, 42% at A*-A, 78% at A*-B and 95% at A*-C (school's own published figures).
Frequently asked questions
What exam board does Norwich High School for Girls use for the 11+?
The school uses Quest Admissions and independent exam boards for its 11+ entrance assessment.
Does Norwich High School for Girls interview as part of the 11+?
No, there is no interview stage in the 11+ admissions process for this school.
How many stages are there in the Norwich High School for Girls 11+ exam?
The 11+ entrance process consists of two stages.
What are the fees for Norwich High School for Girls?
For 2026/27, fees for Years 7-10 are #7,272 per term (inclusive of VAT), plus a compulsory #300 termly lunch charge. There is also a #120 registration fee and a #500 acceptance deposit.
What is the website for Norwich High School for Girls?
The school's official website is https://www.norwichhigh.gdst.net/.
Location
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