Berkshire grammar schools & how to get in.
Berkshire’s 6 grammar schools sit in two clusters — Reading (Reading School and Kendrick) and Slough (four more). The tests differ between them, and some admit by catchment while others go on score. This page explains how it works and lets you check your postcode against all 6.
Check your postcode against every Berkshire grammar
See which catchments you fall inside, which admit on score, and your distance to each — free, no account needed.
Real, published boundaries and the latest distance cut-offs — not straight-line estimates.
How Berkshire grammar admissions work.
Berkshire’s grammars don’t share one test. Reading’s two — Reading School (boys) and Kendrick (girls) — use the Reading consortium test; Slough’s four use the Slough Consortium test. You register and sit the relevant test in the autumn of Year 6, then apply through your home council by 31 October. Offers go out on 1 March.
Both clusters draw heavily from outside Berkshire — west London, Buckinghamshire and Surrey — and are very oversubscribed.
What happens above the pass mark differs between the schools.
Two models in two towns.
4 of the 6 use a catchment area once a child has qualified — Reading School and Kendrick prioritise an inner area, and Langley and Herschel in Slough a postcode area or radius.
The other two Slough schools, Upton Court and St Bernard’s (Catholic), admit on score (St Bernard’s with a faith priority). So in Reading and parts of Slough your address matters as well as the score.
GrammarBound maps each catchment and the latest distances — open the map or check your postcode above.
Every Berkshire grammar school, by town.
All 6 grammar schools across Reading and Slough. Each links to a plain-English admissions guide.