Our admissions process
On this page you will find the information you need to make an application to the School. There are two tabs, depending on which year your son would be entering into Year 7. Please ensure that you select the appropriate tab, or you will be unable to progress an application successfully.
September 2025 Entry
September 2024 Entry
Entrance Test request form available
We invite you to complete an entrance test request form and return this to the School to register your son to sit our September entrance exam. If you encounter difficulty in accessing the form please contact the admissions office via admissions@qebarnet.co.uk
Click here for formSchool Open Day
Visit the School to hear from the Headmaster and take a guided tour of our campus. Sessions will run throughout the day. Booking was opened to all, following initial priority for those who had already registered to sit the entrance test in September.
Deadline for test requests
Please ensure that we have received your completed entrance test request form by noon. We will be unable to invite your son to take the test in September if we have not received your entrance test request form by this deadline.
Click here for formEntrance Test
Boys come to the School on one of these days to sit multiple-choice tests in Maths and English. Details of precise arrangements will be sent by email to those who have registered.
Book a tour
This is the provisional date for notifying parents of the results of the entrance examination. Those who have scored sufficiently highly will then be invited to book a further tour to see the School during working hours. Booking details will be sent to those candidates.
Application Deadline
Applications are made using the Common Application Form, submitted to your home local authority by their published deadline.
National Offer Day
Your home local authority will confirm whether you have been offered a place. If you have not, we will advise those who are eligible of their position on the waiting list.
Entrance Test request form available
We invite you to complete an entrance test request form and return this to the School to register your son to sit our September entrance exam. If you encounter difficulty in accessing the form please contact the admissions office via admissions@qebarnet.co.uk
Click here for formSchool Open Day
Visit the School to hear from the Headmaster and take a guided tour of our campus. Sessions will run throughout the day. Booking is now open to all following an initial priority period for those who have already registered to sit the entrance test in September 2023.
Deadline for test requests
Please ensure that we have received your completed entrance test request form by noon. We will be unable to invite your son to take the test in September if we have not received your entrance test request form by this deadline.
Click here for formEntrance Test
Boys come to the School on one of these days to sit multiple-choice tests in Maths and English. Details of precise arrangements will be sent by email to those who have registered.
Book a tour
This is the provisional date for notifying parents of the results of the entrance examination. Those who have scored sufficiently highly will be invited to book a further tour to see the School during working hours. Booking details will be sent to those candidates.
Application Deadline
Applications are made using the Common Application Form, submitted to your home local authority by their published deadline.
National Offer Day
Your home local authority will confirm whether you have been offered a place. If you have not, we will advise those who are eligible of their position on the waiting list.
Information For Parents
Key admissions information, including admissions criteria, further guidance and appeals information.
Read moreStatement of Education
This statement set out the Governors' over-arching aims, objectives and approach to education.
Read moreSchool Policies
The Governors set a number of policies to ensure high standards of education, behaviour and safeguarding.
Read moreSample test papers
These materials may be useful to those boys preparing to sit our entrance examination.
Read moreFinding us
QE is wonderfully situated on an expansive site on the edge of the Green Belt in High Barnet.
Read moreAbout us
Find out more about all aspects of life at QE, as well as the history of the School.
Read moreQueen Elizabeth's: An Introduction
Queen Elizabeth's School is a selective, non-denominational and non-fee-paying School with a mission of producing young men who are confident, able and responsible. The School has a reputation for academic excellence and our expectations are high: QE boys excel at A-level and go on to places at leading universities, including Oxford and Cambridge.
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