- Grammar school for girls
- Lincolnshire 11+
Kesteven and Sleaford High School: 11+ entry
Jermyn Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 7RS
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Can we apply, and what did it take?
For September 2027 entry
Opens a short explanationqualifying scoreThe score a child must reach to be considered for a grammar school place in that area. Reaching it is not an offer of a place: places then follow each school’s admission rules.
220or more
Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+, 2027 entry
Checked, source: Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools, checkedYear 7 places
124
2027 entry, Published Admission Number ()Opens a short explanationPANPublished Admission NumberThe number of places a school offers in its first year group, for example Year 7. The admission authority sets it each year in the school’s admission policy.
Checked, source: Kesteven and Sleaford High School, checked- Not publishedWe have no checked figure for how far offers reached.
Last distance offered
Your next deadline
Next: School place applications close: Common Application Form ()Opens a short explanationCAFCommon Application FormThe form you use to apply for a secondary school place. You send it to your own council, even for schools in another area, and you list the schools you want in order of preference. In England it closes on 31 October.
in 11 days
Can we get in?
How far offers reached
Each bar shows how far from Kesteven and Sleaford High School the last child offered a place lived, under the last admission rule the offers reached. Up to five years, on one scale.
Qualifying is not the same as being offered a place.
A score of 220 or more in the Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+ means your child can be considered. If more children qualify than there are places, the school gives places using its admission rules, in order. The figures below show how far those rules reached in past years. They are history, not a prediction: they change every year with who applies.
Applications and offers, September 2026 entry (Department for Education)
How many families applied to Kesteven and Sleaford High School and how many places it offered. Applicants per place is all applications divided by offers. Families apply to several schools and not every applicant qualifies, so it is not the chance of a place.
| Figure | Department for Education |
|---|---|
| First-preference applications | 148First-preference applications, 2026 entryChecked 16 Oct 2026 against Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics).The source says: 202627,Academic year,School,E92000001,England,E12000004,East Midlands,925,E10000019,Lincolnshire,Secondary,9254005,z,3,Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy,124,124,118,6,0,273,148,107,18,1.2542372881355932,1.1935483870967742,36,7,Academy converter,No religious character,9.1,Selective,Urban: Further from a major town or city,No,E14001476,Sleaford and North Hykeham,137667,7View the official source |
| All applications (any preference) | 273All applications (any preference), 2026 entryChecked 16 Oct 2026 against Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics).The source says: 202627,Academic year,School,E92000001,England,E12000004,East Midlands,925,E10000019,Lincolnshire,Secondary,9254005,z,3,Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy,124,124,118,6,0,273,148,107,18,1.2542372881355932,1.1935483870967742,36,7,Academy converter,No religious character,9.1,Selective,Urban: Further from a major town or city,No,E14001476,Sleaford and North Hykeham,137667,7View the official source |
| Places offered on National Offer Day | 124Places offered on National Offer Day, 2026 entryChecked 16 Oct 2026 against Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics).The source says: 202627,Academic year,School,E92000001,England,E12000004,East Midlands,925,E10000019,Lincolnshire,Secondary,9254005,z,3,Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy,124,124,118,6,0,273,148,107,18,1.2542372881355932,1.1935483870967742,36,7,Academy converter,No religious character,9.1,Selective,Urban: Further from a major town or city,No,E14001476,Sleaford and North Hykeham,137667,7View the official source |
| Applicants per place | 2.2Applicants per place, 2026 entryChecked 16 Oct 2026 against Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics).The source says: 202627,Academic year,School,E92000001,England,E12000004,East Midlands,925,E10000019,Lincolnshire,Secondary,9254005,z,3,Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy,124,124,118,6,0,273,148,107,18,1.2542372881355932,1.1935483870967742,36,7,Academy converter,No religious character,9.1,Selective,Urban: Further from a major town or city,No,E14001476,Sleaford and North Hykeham,137667,7View the official source |
Source: Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics), checked
About these figures
Kesteven and Sleaford High has not published past cut-off scores on the pages we checked.
At a glance
Kesteven and Sleaford High School in brief
tap a value for its source
- Pupils
- girlsPupilsChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
Kesteven & Sleaford High School is, for students up to the age of sixteen, a selective girls' academy, accepting the top 25% of the ability range.
View the official source - Who the school admits.
- School type
- academySchool typeChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
Kesteven and Sleaford High School is an 11-18 selective academy.
View the official source - How the school is run and funded.
- Year 7 places
- 124Year 7 placesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
The official admission number for entry to Year 7 is 124.
View the official source2027 entry - The (PAN): how many children the school plans to admit.
- Entrance test
- Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+
- The test children sit to be considered. Written by GL Assessment.
- Opens a short explanationcatchmentAn area, set by a school or a council, where children get higher priority for a place. Living inside it is not an offer of a place. Not every school has a catchment.
- A mapped area (see the admission rules)
- Where children get priority. Living inside it does not by itself mean a place.
Key dates
Dates for September 2027 entry
For children in Year 6 in 2026/27.
Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools
3 earlier steps, all doneShow
Done: Test registration opens
Done: Test registration closes
Done: Results
12pm
Next: School place applications close (CAF)
in 11 days
Coming up: National Offer Day
Not published yet: Test day
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Year 5 now? Dates for September 2028 entryNone of these dates are published yet.
Not published yet: Test registration opens
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Not published yet: Test registration closes
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Not published yet: Test day
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Not published yet: Results
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Notes on these dates
Late registration and late tests: late Year 7 tests are available, except for children who sat the test the previous year and were unsuccessful; contact the school's admissions officerKesteven and Sleaford High School: Late testing (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says: Anyone, other than those who took the 11+ assessment for admission during the previous year and were unsuccessful, may approach the school to sit a late test for Year 7 entry.
View the official source.
How places are given
4 admission rules, in order, for 2027 entry
If more children qualify than there are places, Kesteven and Sleaford High School gives places using these rules (its Opens a short explanationoversubscription criteriaThe rules a school uses, in order, to decide who gets a place when more children apply than there are places. For example: children in care first, then brothers and sisters of pupils, then distance from home.), in this order (2027 entry).
- 1
Looked-after and previously looked-after children
The policy's own words
Looked after children and previously looked after children including those children who appear
- 2
Children registered for pupil premium (free school meals in the last six years)
The policy's own words
The child is registered for Pupil Premium defined as those registered for Free School Meals at
- 3
Siblings at a Community Inclusive Trust secondary school
The policy's own words
Students who, at the time of admission, have siblings at one of the secondary schools within
- 4
Nearest to the school (straight line)
The policy's own words
Straight line distance from the home to the Academy, priority will be given to the child living
Source: Kesteven and Sleaford High School, checked
- Catchment
- no catchment; distance decides after the priority criteriaSource: Kesteven and Sleaford High School, checked
- If two children are level for the last place
- nearest by straight line, then a lottery drawn by an independent personSource: Kesteven and Sleaford High School, checked
- Brothers and sisters
- siblings at any Community Inclusive Trust secondary school (criterion 3)Source: Kesteven and Sleaford High School, checked
- Waiting list
- reserve list of qualified children in oversubscription order (parents must ask to join if refused); kept by the county admissions team until the end of August, then by the schoolSource: Kesteven and Sleaford High School, checked
More detail from our guide
- Priority area: no catchment; distance decides after the priority criteriaKesteven and Sleaford High School: Catchment description (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
Straight line distance from the home to the Academy, priority will be given to the child living closest to the Academy.
View the official source - How distance is measured: Straight line, from post office address point of the home to post office address point of the schoolKesteven and Sleaford High School: Distance rule (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
Straight line distance as calculated electronically to three figures after the decimal point (e.g. 1.543 miles) by the Lincolnshire County Council school admissions team from the post office address point of the home to the post office address point of the school.
View the official source - Siblings: siblings at any Community Inclusive Trust secondary school (criterion 3)Kesteven and Sleaford High School: Sibling priority (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
Students who, at the time of admission, have siblings at one of the secondary schools within
View the official source - Waiting list: reserve list of qualified children in oversubscription order (parents must ask to join if refused); kept by the county admissions team until the end of August, then by the schoolKesteven and Sleaford High School: Waiting list (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
For the intake year the list is kept by the Schools Admission Team until the end of August. After this the school admissions code requires that schools keep the Reserve List until the end of the autumn term.
View the official source
The test
Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+
- Test
- Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+
- Written by
- GL Assessment
- Test date, 2027 entry
- Not yet published
Kesteven and Sleaford High uses the two Lincolnshire consortium tests; a total of 220Lincolnshire: Qualifying scoreChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools.The source says: The qualifying level is a total standardised score of at least 220 on both papers.
View the official source or more qualifies a child.
Format: Lincolnshire guide.
Open days
All this year's events have passed
Done: Open Morning (passed)
9.15am-12noon
Source: Kesteven and Sleaford High School, checked
If you are refused a place
Reviews, appeals and the waiting list
General information, not legal advice.
- How appeals work
- independent appeal against a decision not to admitSource: Kesteven and Sleaford High School, checked
General information, not legal advice.
How appeals work here: independent appeal against a decision not to admitKesteven and Sleaford High School: Appeals route (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says: There are rights to appeal against non-qualification, but exceptional circumstances
View the official source.
What is different about Kesteven and Sleaford High
- Opened in 1902; in the centre of SleafordKesteven and Sleaford High School: DistinctivesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
We are situated in the centre of the beautiful Lincolnshire market town of Sleaford, having first opened our doors in 1902.
View the official source - Sibling priority counts siblings at any Community Inclusive Trust secondary school (including Carre's Grammar)Kesteven and Sleaford High School: DistinctivesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
Students who, at the time of admission, have siblings at one of the secondary schools within
View the official source - The school, not the local authority, runs the 11+ testingKesteven and Sleaford High School: DistinctivesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
It is the school – not the Local Authority – that carries out the testing procedures.
View the official source - Pupil premium children are second priority with no capKesteven and Sleaford High School: DistinctivesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Kesteven and Sleaford High School.The source says:
The child is registered for Pupil Premium defined as those registered for Free School Meals at
View the official source
Entry in September 2028 (Year 5 now)
No 2028 arrangements found yet.
Official documents and sources
7 sources, each kept as an archived copy
- Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics)
Spreadsheet · copy archived by ExamKind on 16 Oct 2026
- Kesteven and Sleaford High School
PDF document · copy archived by ExamKind on 9 Oct 2026
- Kesteven and Sleaford High School
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 9 Oct 2026
- Kesteven and Sleaford High School
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 9 Oct 2026
- Kesteven and Sleaford High School
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 9 Oct 2026
- Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 13 Oct 2026
- Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 13 Oct 2026
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