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St Catherine's School
St Catherine's School, Bramley is an independent day and boarding school for girls in Surrey. The 11+ admissions process for Year 7 entry uses the ISEB Pretest as its single-stage written assessment, alongside an interview stage. The school is located on Station Road in Bramley and welcomes girls aged 11 to 18 into its senior school.
Girls who like getting quietly on with things, and who want room to be ambitious without being pushed, tend to settle well here. St Catherine's is an independent day and boarding school for girls, taking pupils from 11 to 18 in the senior school, with a prep on the same site. It sits on Station Road in the village of Bramley, a few miles south of Guildford.
The school opened in 1885 with seventeen girls, founded by local clergy and gentry whose names now belong to the houses: Ashcombe, Merriman, Midleton, Musgrave, Russell Baker, Stoner. The chapel, dedicated in 1894, has Kempe stained glass and a Willis organ, and girls are in it weekly. The motto, 'Let us go on', comes from the sermon preached at that dedication, and it describes the tone rather well: forward, steady, not fussed about perfection. Teaching groups in the first two years are lettered rather than numbered, so no ranking can be read into them. Lacrosse is the sport the school is known for, with senior teams that travel to national championships. Juliet Stevenson was a pupil in the 1970s.
The Good Schools Guide describes lessons as 'quiet and purposeful', with 'girls focused and engaged', and says pastoral care is 'genuinely woven into the fabric of the school'. Parents point to the house system as the thing that makes a new Year 7 feel known by half term, since houses mix year groups from the start. It suits a girl who wants to be stretched rather than ranked, who likes sport or singing or making things as much as a good lesson, and who does better somewhere that expects plenty of her and then helps her get there.
Key facts
Annual fees
Senior School (Years 7 and above) £8,790 per term (2026/27), inclusive of VAT where applicable, plus £390 per term compulsory lunch (VAT exempt)
Admissions
Admissions contact
admissions@stcatherines.info
Admissions phone
+44 (0)1483 899609
Registration form
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
A-level results
Frequently asked questions
What exam board does St Catherine's Bramley use for the 11+?
St Catherine's School uses the ISEB Pretest for its 11+ entrance assessment.
Does St Catherine's Bramley interview candidates as part of the 11+?
Yes, there is an interview stage as part of the Year 7 admissions process at St Catherine's.
Is St Catherine's Bramley co-educational or single-sex?
St Catherine's is a single-sex independent school for girls.
What are the annual fees for St Catherine's Bramley Senior School?
For the 2026/27 academic year, Senior School fees are £8,790 per term (inclusive of VAT where applicable), plus a compulsory lunch fee of £390 per term.
What is the website for St Catherine's Bramley admissions?
You can find more details on the school's official admissions page at https://www.stcatherines.info/admissions/joining-stcatherines/seniorschool.
Location
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