Know exactly where your child stands for St. Albans High School for Girls
Thousands of practice questions and up to 6 mock papers, all in the exact St. Albans High School for Girls 11+ format, on one simple plan. It starts with a free diagnostic.
Thousands of practice questions and up to 6 mock papers, all in the exact St. Albans High School for Girls 11+ format, on one simple plan. It starts with a free diagnostic.
St. Albans High School for Girls
St Albans High School for Girls (STAHS) is an independent day school for girls in Hertfordshire. The 11+ admissions process consists of a single stage featuring the ISEB Pretest, followed by an interview in January. The school is highly selective and aims to make the assessment feel like an ordinary, low-pressure day for candidates.
If your daughter is bright and does best when an assessment feels like an ordinary day rather than a big occasion, this is how St Albans High School for Girls approaches it: breaks, lunch, and practice questions handed out on the spot. The parents' meeting is explicitly no part of her assessment. St Albans High School for Girls is an independent day school for four to eighteen, selective at every entry point, and entry at eleven plus is the ISEB pre-test followed by an interview in January.
It is two places, not one. The senior school is in the middle of St Albans on Townsend Avenue, in the building it put up for itself in 1908 and still uses at the heart of the campus. The prep moved out in 2003 to Wheathampstead House, eighteen acres of fields and woodland in a village a few miles north. The school was founded on 2 May 1889, after the Rector of the Abbey pushed for a girls' school in a city that had nothing for girls past the age of twelve, and the first pupil on the register was his own daughter.
The four houses are named after figures from the city: a fifteenth-century prioress of Sopwell remembered for her hawking, a thirteenth-century monk chronicler, the author of a medieval book of travels, and Francis Bacon. It is still a Church of England school and says it welcomes families of all faiths or none. One thing worth knowing at dinner: in 1950 the school took boys into one of its houses, and an eight-year-old Stephen Hawking was one of them. It suits a girl who wants pace and will enjoy it.
Key facts
Annual fees
Years 7-13 £9,776 per term (£29,328 per year) for 2026/27, inclusive of VAT (£8,147 net plus £1,629 VAT), per the school's published fee schedule. Non-refundable registration fee £150 plus VAT (£180). Acceptance deposit £1,500, held on account and deducted from the final bill when the pupil leaves.
Admissions
Admissions contact
admissions@stahs.org.uk
Admissions phone
01727 792509 (admissions); 01727 853800 (switchboard)
Registration form
https://stahs.openapply.com/
Sibling policy
What this school tests
ISEB Common Pre-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 Series
- Grid Matrices
- Horizontal Codes
- Most Like Three Figures
- Most Like Two Figures
- Odd Figure Out
- Star Matrices
- Triangle Matrices
- Triangle Series
- Vertical Codes
Verbal Reasoning
- Compound Words
- Embedded Words
- Form a Word
- Insert a Letter
- Move 1 / 2 Letters
- Odd Word Out
- Shuffled Sentences
- Synonyms
- Verbal Classification
- Word Analogies
- Word Completion
- Word Match
- Word Opposites
- Word Pairs
Spatial Reasoning
- 2D Rotations
- 2D View of 3D Shape
- 3D Rotations
- Block Counting
- Building Blocks
- Combining Shapes
- Fold and Punch
- Folding Cubes
- Hidden Shapes
- Missing Face of Cube
- Nets - Opposite Face
- Shape Completion
- Vertical/Horizontal Reflections
Catchment area
Selection review and safety net
Previous exam results
GCSE results
2026: 46% of grades at 9, 74% at 8-9 and 90% at 7-9, up from 40%, 69% and 85% in 2025; 11 students achieved straight grade 9s (school's own published figures).
A-level results
2026: 38% of grades at A*, 75% at A*-A, 94% at A*-B and 99% at A*-C; 55% of the year group achieved all A*/A grades, up from 36%, 72% and 92% in 2025 (school's own published figures).
Frequently asked questions
What exam board does St Albans High School for Girls use for the 11+?
St Albans High School for Girls uses the ISEB Pretest for its 11+ entrance exam.
Does STAHS interview candidates as part of the 11+ process?
Yes, there is an interview stage in January following the ISEB Pretest.
Is St Albans High School for Girls co-educational or single-sex?
St Albans High School for Girls is a single-sex independent school for girls.
What are the school fees for St Albans High School for Girls?
For the 2026/27 academic year, fees for Years 7-13 are £9,776 per term (£29,328 per year) inclusive of VAT.
What is the website for St Albans High School for Girls?
The official website is https://www.stahs.org.uk/.
Location
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