Apply to Beths Grammar School, in plain English.
Beths uses the Bexley 11+ Selection Test — not the Kent test. This guide covers how to register, the seven criteria that decide who gets a place (including the Top 180 guarantee and where Pupil Premium sits in the order), and what happens at the sibling SIF stage.
The three things to know first.
If you read nothing else on this page, read these.
The Bexley test — not the Kent 11+.
Beths uses the Bexley Selection TestBexley 11+A two-paper test of verbal reasoning, comprehension, non-verbal reasoning and maths reasoning. Administered by Bexley LA in September. run by Bexley LA — a completely separate process from the Kent PESE. Register directly with Bexley LA (not the school) by 31 March 2026.
Top 180 scorers get a guaranteed place at their preferred Bexley grammar.
The 180 children with the highest age-standardised scores across all Bexley grammar applicants are guaranteed a place at their preferred school. If your child scores in the top 180, they effectively choose which Bexley grammar to attend.
Both the sibling SIF and the PP SIF are due 30 October.
If claiming sibling priority, email a Supplementary Information FormSIFA school-specific form used alongside the CAF to verify priority criteria such as sibling or Pupil Premium status. Missing the SIF deadline can cost you the priority. directly to the Head's office by 30 October 2026. The PP SIF is also due by the same date. Missing either form means losing that priority.
Four steps across the year.
If more children pass than there are places, these 7 criteria decide.
Only children deemed selective by Bexley LA are eligible. Within that group, the following order applies. Tap any criterion to see the exact wording.
In plain English: Children currently or previously in council care get top priority, regardless of score or address.
What the document says: Highest priority will be given to looked-after children and all previously looked-after children who apply for a place at the school.
In plain English: The 180 children with the highest scores across all Bexley grammar applicants get a guaranteed place at their preferred Bexley grammar school. The exact cut-off score varies each year. If your child is in the top 180, they effectively choose which Bexley grammar to attend.
What the document says: Those children identified as achieving one of the highest 180 standardised scores in the Bexley selection test. All children who take the Bexley selection test are ranked in order of their standardised scores. From this ranking exercise, the 180 children with the highest scores are guaranteed a place at their preferred grammar school within Bexley LA.
In plain English: If your child will have a brother, sister, half- or step-sibling at Beths in Years 7–11 at the time of application, they get priority here. You must email a Supplementary Information Form to the Head's office by 30 October 2026 — the CAF alone is not enough to claim this priority.
What the document says: Those children with a brother, sister or step/half brother or sister living at the same address who are currently attending Beths Grammar School in Years 7–11 at the time of application. A Supplementary Information Form must be returned to the Headteacher's office by 30 October.
In plain English: If a parent works at Beths, their child gets priority here. Contact the school directly to confirm the SIF process for staff children.
What the document says: Beths Grammar gives priority to children of staff employed at the school at the time at which the application was made.
In plain English: 12 places are reserved for Pupil Premium-eligible children who are deemed selective. Within this group, places go to children living closest to the school. Return the PP SIF to the school with supporting evidence by 30 October 2026. Note that PP sits at criterion 5 here — below sibling and staff — so sibling or top-180 priority offers a stronger route if applicable.
What the document says: Up to 12 places are reserved for children who are eligible for receipt of Pupil Premium Grant funding at the time of application, and who are deemed selective, in rank order of distance from the school. Documentary supporting evidence must be provided and the Supplementary Form for Pupil Premium Information returned to the school by 30 October in the year of application.
In plain English: Any other child who passed the Bexley test, ranked by straight-line distance from home to the east entrance in Hartford Road. The closer you live, the better your chance.
What the document says: Children will be admitted on the basis of proximity to the school measured in a straight line from the home address, with priority given to children living nearest to the school. Distance measured by the LA's computerised system from the gate of the home address to the east entrance of the school in Hartford Road.
In plain English: If places remain unfilled after criteria 1–6, children who took the Kent or Dartford grammar selection test and scored within 5 marks of that test's pass mark may be considered, ranked by score. This criterion is rarely triggered in practice.
What the document says: Children who have taken the Kent or Dartford grammar selection test and who were within 5 marks of the selective threshold, admitted in score order, if places remain after applying criteria 1–6.
Joining Year 12 from outside — boys and girls welcome.
Beths recruits external students into Year 12 each September. Unlike the main school, the sixth form accepts both boys and girls.
Academic requirements
You need at least 7 GCSEs at grades 9–5, with a total of 42 points from your best 7 subjects, including English and Maths at grade 5 or above. Individual A-level subject requirements also apply — check the school's sixth form prospectus for subject-specific grade conditions.
How to apply
Applications for September 2027 sixth form entry close 31 January 2027. Apply directly to the school. Approximately 183 external places are available. Contact the school's admissions team for the application form.
Contact: Headsoffice@beths.bexley.sch.uk
Straight line to the east entrance.
For criterion 6, distance is measured in a straight line from the gate of your home address to the east entrance of the school in Hartford Road, using the local authority's computerised measuring system. Road distance and walking time are not used.
Home address is taken as the child's permanent address at National Offer Day — the address at which the child lives with the main carer. Proof of residency will be required. If parents live at different addresses, the home for admissions purposes is where the child spends the majority of the school week.
See the catchment on the GrammarBound mapTwo criterion-6 children ranked by distance.
Both children passed the Bexley test but are not in the top 180 and have no sibling, staff, or PP priority. Both fall into criterion 6 and are ranked by distance to the east entrance. Child A at 1.1 miles ranks above Child B at 3.2 miles.
You have two routes, and you can use both.
Waiting list
The waiting list is maintained and re-ranked each time a new name is added, using the same seven criteria. Only children deemed selective can be on the waiting list.
Request via Beths Grammar School directly.
Appeal
Contact the school's Admissions Officer to request an Appeal Form. Appeals are heard by an independent School Appeals Panel.
Appealing does not affect your waiting-list position.