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Thousands of practice questions and up to 6 mock papers, all in the exact Notre Dame School 11+ format, on one simple plan. It starts with a free diagnostic.
Notre Dame School
Notre Dame School in Cobham is an independent Catholic day school for girls that uses a two-stage 11+ admissions process. The assessment is conducted via Quest Admissions and includes an online test, creative writing, and a ten-minute interview with a member of staff. The school is academically selective and is located in a twenty-six acre site in Surrey.
One parent told the Good Schools Guide that Notre Dame 'has been an antidote to the whole 11+ treadmill', which is worth hearing if the treadmill is what you are on. It is an independent Catholic day school for girls, from two to eighteen, in twenty-six acres at Cobham in Surrey. It is academically selective, but the assessment day is deliberately unhurried: an hour online, half an hour of creative writing, a ten-minute chat with a member of staff, and a quarter of an hour of something to do for fun.
The school opened in 1937 with seven pupils, all of them boarders, in Burwood House, and has not moved since. The house is late eighteenth century and listed, with a classical relief of the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs above the front door. The order behind it, the Company of Mary Our Lady, was founded in Bordeaux in 1607 by Jeanne de Lestonnac, a widow with five children and a niece of the essayist Montaigne, whose ideas about learning by experience the school still cites. Cobham is its only school in the UK.
The chapel sits in the middle of the main building and there is a chaplain on site, but the school says plainly that it welcomes families of all faiths and none, and faith is not part of the entry criteria. Every Year 7 girl is given a Big Sister, backed by trained mentors from Years 10 and 12, and there is a therapy dog. The Guide describes polite pupils who 'take manners very seriously, holding doors open for each other, no pushing or charging about', and says the small scale and the Catholic character make the place feel protected from the outside world, which draws some parents and puts others off. It suits a girl who wants school to feel steady.
Key facts
Annual fees
Senior School (Years 7-13) £9,250 per term (£27,750 per year) for 2026/27, inclusive of VAT. Year 7 lunches charged separately at £425 per term. Non-refundable registration fee £150 at application; £1,200 acceptance deposit payable on offer.
Admissions
Admissions contact
admissions@notredame.co.uk
Admissions phone
01932 869993
Registration form
https://notredameschool.openapply.com/apply/forms/58650
Sibling policy
What this school tests
11+ Online Entrance 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 Task
English
- Creative Writing - Descriptive
- Creative Writing - Narrative
Catchment area
Selection review and safety net
Previous exam results
GCSE results
2025: 49% of grades at 7-9, including 30% at 8-9 and 13% at grade 9, with over a quarter of Year 11 gaining nine or more grades at 7-9. The school reports a value-added score of 1.2, which it states places it in the top 2% nationally (school's own published figures).
A-level results
2025: a 100% pass rate at A*-E across 21 subjects, with 100% at A*-B in several subjects including Art and Design, Economics, English, French, History, Psychology, Religious Studies and Sociology. The school does not publish a cohort-wide A*-A or A*-B figure. A Levels only, no IB or BTEC (school's own published figures).
Frequently asked questions
What exam board does Notre Dame School use for the 11+?
Notre Dame School uses the Quest Admissions assessment process for its 11+ entry.
Does Notre Dame School interview candidates as part of the 11+?
Yes, the assessment process includes a ten-minute interview or chat with a member of staff.
Is Notre Dame School co-educational or single-sex?
Notre Dame School is a single-sex day school for girls.
What are the annual fees for Notre Dame School?
For the 2026/27 academic year, Senior School fees are £9,250 per term (£27,750 per year), inclusive of VAT. Year 7 lunches are charged separately at £425 per term.
What is the website for Notre Dame School?
The official website for the school is https://www.notredame.co.uk/.
Location
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