Guide to grammar schools and the Secondary Transfer Test

Children born between 1 September 2013 and 31 August 2014 will be moving up to secondary school in September 2025. The dates set so far for that academic year are as follows:

Registration will open at 10am for children who do not attend a state-funded Buckinghamshire primary school.

If your child goes to a state-funded Buckinghamshire primary school they are automatically registered for the Secondary Transfer Test.

Registration will close at 3pm.

10 September 2024 – Children sit the Practice Test.

12 September 2024 – Children sit the Secondary Transfer Test.

Children who attend a state-funded Buckinghamshire primary school or a partner school will sit the test in school during the school day.

Children who attend any other school will be invited to sit the test at a grammar school or other central testing venue where possible. Capacity for grammar school testing is limited: if that capacity is exceeded, further testing sessions may be organised on different dates. Dates and test venues will be confirmed when formal invitations are emailed to parents by the middle of August.

Families cannot choose or change a test time, date or testing centre: this will be assigned to you.

11 October 2024; families will be notified of their child’s test results, if their child sat the test on the 12 September.