Apply to Langley Grammar School, in plain English.
Langley Grammar is a super-selective, co-educational grammar in Slough that admits on the Slough Consortium 11+ — you must register for the test separately from your council application, and the deadline is 5 June 2026. A standardised score of 111 or more makes a child eligible, and then places are allocated through three postcode Priority Areas before being ranked by test score. With around 1,105 applicants for 180 places, a qualifying score is only the start.
The three things to know first.
If you read nothing else on this page, read these.
You sit one test — the Slough Consortium 11+ — and you must register by 5 June 2026.
Langley is one of four schools in the Slough Consortium of Grammar Schools. Children sit a single GL Assessment 11+ on Saturday 19 September 2026; the same result is shared with all four schools. You register through the Consortium, separately from your council's application — the window is 1 May to 5 June 2026 and late entries are not accepted. A standardised score of 111 or above makes a child eligible for consideration.
Where you live matters here — there are three postcode Priority Areas.
Unlike a pure score-rank school, Langley allocates places through three Priority Admission Areas defined by postcode. Priority Area 1 (Inner) — Langley, Colnbrook, Datchet and the rest of SL3 0/7/8/9 — takes up to 120 of the 180 places. Area 2 (Outer) and Area 3 (General) follow. The school states that qualifying children living outside all three areas "have no realistic chance" of a place.
Within each area, Pupil Premium comes first, then the highest test scores.
Inside Priority Area 1, places go to Pupil Premium children first, then in rank order of 11+ score. There is no sibling priority and no feeder school at Langley. Children of long-serving staff are ranked between Area 2's Pupil Premium children and Area 2's score-ranked children. Claim Pupil Premium on the council form by 31 October 2026.
Five steps — starting now.
If more qualifying children apply than there are places, these criteria decide.
First, children with an EHCP naming the school are admitted. Then, among children scoring 111+, places are allocated in the order below. Tap any criterion to see the exact wording.
In plain English: A child currently in council care, or who left care through adoption or a guardianship order, gets first priority — provided they reached the qualifying score. In practice this is a small group.
What the document says: Looked After Children, or children who have been previously looked after, will take priority over all other applicants provided they are eligible for consideration (a standardised score of 111 or above).
In plain English: Up to 120 of the 180 places go to qualifying children whose permanent home address is in Priority Area 1 — the SL3 sectors 0, 7, 8 and 9 covering Langley, Colnbrook, Datchet, Wraysbury, Horton and Poyle. Within this group, children eligible for the Pupil Premium are placed first, and then everyone else in rank order of 11+ score.
What the document says: Eligible applicants with a permanent home address within the school's Priority Area 1, up to a maximum of 120 places. If there are fewer places available than eligible applicants, places will be allocated firstly to those who attract Pupil Premium funding, and then in rank order of performance in the entrance examination.
In plain English: Next come qualifying children living in Priority Area 2 (the rest of Slough, Windsor, Staines/Egham and parts of Hayes, West Drayton and Uxbridge) who are eligible for the Pupil Premium. Pupil Premium means eligible for free school meals now, or at any point since April 2018. You must be able to show eligibility as at the Common Application Form closing date.
What the document says: Eligible applicants with a permanent home address within the school's Priority Area 2 and who attract Pupil Premium funding at the closing date for submission of the Common Application Form.
In plain English: Qualifying children of permanent members of staff employed by the school for at least two years, or recruited to a post with a demonstrable skill shortage, come next — ahead of the score-ranked Area 2 children.
What the document says: Eligible applicants who are children of permanent members of the school staff who have been continuously employed by the school for a period of not less than 2 years prior to the closing date for applications, or who have been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
In plain English: Any places left after the groups above go to other qualifying children in Priority Area 2, in rank order of their 11+ score. Area 2 covers SL0, SL1, SL2, SL4 and the rest of SL3, plus TW18–TW20 and UB3/4/7/8/10.
What the document says: Eligible applicants with a permanent home address within the school's Priority Area 2, in rank order of performance in the admission examination.
In plain English: If places remain, qualifying children in Priority Area 3 are considered — Maidenhead, Marlow and Ascot (SL5–9), Hounslow and Feltham, Southall and Greenford, Harrow, Ealing and Bracknell. Within this area, Pupil Premium children are placed first, then everyone else by 11+ rank.
What the document says: Eligible applicants who live within the school's Priority Area 3, in rank order of performance in the admission examination. If there are fewer places available than eligible applicants, places will be allocated firstly to those who attract Pupil Premium funding, and then in rank order.
In plain English: Any qualifying child living outside all three Priority Areas is ranked last, by 11+ score. The school's own advice is blunt: because it is heavily oversubscribed, applicants outside the areas "have no realistic chance" of an offer.
What the document says: Eligible applicants who live outside the Priority Admission Areas, in rank order of performance in the admission examination.
Tie-breaks: If two or more children are tied for the final place, it goes to the one whose home is nearest the school, measured in a straight line by the council's mapping system. There is no sibling priority and no feeder school at Langley.
Three postcode rings — and the inner one takes most of the places.
Langley does not rank purely by score. It draws three Priority Admission Areas by postcode and works through them in turn. Area 1 (Inner) — SL3 0/7/8/9 around Langley, Colnbrook and Datchet — takes up to 120 of the 180 places. Area 2 (Outer) covers the rest of Slough, Windsor, Staines/Egham and parts of Hillingdon; Area 3 (General) reaches Maidenhead, Hounslow, Harrow, Ealing and Bracknell. A top score in Area 3 still sits behind Area 1 children, so a closer address can beat a higher mark.
Distance only comes in as the final tie-break, measured 'as the crow flies' from your permanent home to the school using Slough's mapping system. On our map the shaded rings show the three Priority Areas; the school's advice is that qualifying children outside all three have no realistic chance of a place.
See Langley's Priority Areas on the GrammarBound mapThe inner area outranks a higher score further out.
Child A lives in Langley (Area 1) and scores a solid 116 — comfortably inside the 120 inner-area places. Child B lives in Harrow (Area 3) and scores a higher 132, but Area 3 is only reached once Areas 1 and 2 are filled, so in a heavily oversubscribed year B can still miss out. With Langley, your postcode ring matters as much as the mark.
You have two routes, and you can use both.
Waiting list
Qualifying children who were not offered a place are placed on a waiting list, ranked by the same oversubscription criteria and re-ordered each time a name is added or removed. It runs to 31 December 2027 in the first instance; you can write in to extend it.
Request a waiting-list place via Langley directly.
Appeal
You have the right to appeal to an independent panel, which follows the statutory School Admissions Code. Appealing does not remove your child from the waiting list — you can do both.
Joining Year 12 from outside.
Langley aims for at least 185 students in Year 12 and reserves a minimum of 20 places for external students, on top of its own Year 11s who stay on.
The grade floor.
Entry is by GCSE results, and the same requirements apply to internal and external applicants. You need a minimum average GCSE points score of 5.5 across all your subjects, including at least grade 5 in both GCSE English Language and Maths, plus specific minimum grades in the subjects you intend to take at A-level. Full subject-by-subject requirements are in the Sixth Form Prospectus and Course Guide, which form part of the admission arrangements.
Apply direct to the school.
External applicants apply directly to Langley by the published deadline; conditional offers are confirmed on GCSE results day once the grades are met. If external applicants are oversubscribed, places go to looked-after children, then children of staff, then by GCSE average points score. Students must come straight from Year 11 — no repeating or restarting Year 12.