Welcome to Admissions

The information in this section of the website is to guide you through the application process, from your own initial research through to applying for a place to join Whitgift. 

**We are no longer accepting applications for 2024 entry. Guidance, key dates, and links to apply for Sep 2025 entry will be published in the summer of 2024.**

General Guidance

Whitgift offers Day places at:

  • 10+ (Lower First Form)
  • 11+ (First Form)
  • 13+ (Third Form)
  • 16+ (Sixth Form)

Full and Weekly boarding is available at 13+, 14+, and 16+. 

All students join these entry points in September at the start of the academic year. We do not offer occasional places, mid-year entry, or entry into Year 11 (Fifth Form). Please use the links on the right to learn more about each entry point.

To find out more about life at Whitgift, please take a look at our videos, publications and podcasts.

 

Our Four-Step Application Process

Our core purpose is to educate bright and talented young men to become independent learners and thinkers, to achieve beyond what they believe they could, and leave us ready to give to the society in which they will be leaders.

We found the Whitgift process to be the most positive and thoughtful of all the schools we interviewed at and we felt you put the boys and their experience first.

Prospective Parents (September 2023 entry)

My thanks for an exceptionally well structured admissions process. From the exams themselves, to the arrangements on the day, to the personal tour, to the kind parents and pupils who helped and the excellent communications from your admissions office - everything you do, you somehow manage to do better than all the other schools.

Prospective parent, (September 2023 entry)

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