Apply to The Latymer School, in plain English.
The Latymer School is a super-selective mixed grammar in Edmonton, Enfield, and one of the most heavily oversubscribed in the country — over 1,000 applicants compete for its 192 Year 7 places. Children sit the school's own 11+ test — GL Assessment Maths and Verbal Reasoning plus a school-set English paper — and places fill by combined test-score rank, but only children living in the school's Inner Area of postcodes can be admitted. Register for the test — the online Supplementary Information Form (SIF) — by 2 June 2026, separately from and before the October CAF deadline.
The three things to know first.
If you read nothing else on this page, read these. They're the bits that catch parents out.
You register for the test by 2 June 2026 — long before the CAF.
Latymer sets its own 11+ test, not a council consortium test. To sit it you must submit the online Supplementary Information Form (SIF) between 17 March and 2 June 2026. Late forms are not accepted, registrations made via tutoring-group websites are rejected, and registering is separate from the October Common Application Form. Miss the SIF deadline and there is no route to a place for 2027 entry.
One round of tests — and the Inner Area decides who can get in.
All applicants sit Maths and Verbal Reasoning (GL Assessment, multiple-choice) plus a school-set English paper, on 3–5 September 2026. The top 700 by Maths and Verbal Reasoning have their English marked, then everyone is ranked on a re-standardised combined score. Places fill by that rank — but the school only admits children living in its published Inner Area of postcodes. Up to 20 places are set aside for children eligible for Free School Meals or Universal Credit, and up to 20 for exceptional musical talent.
If your address is outside the Inner Area, your child cannot be admitted.
This is not just a priority — it is a hard requirement. The arrangements state plainly: “Only children residing in one of these postcodes will be admitted to the school.” The Inner Area is a list of postal districts across Enfield, Edmonton, Tottenham, Wood Green, the N-codes of north London and parts of east London. Your child must be living at the qualifying address by 7 January 2027.
Four steps — the first deadline is spring, not October.
Registering for the Latymer 11+ test (step 1) closes on 2 June 2026 — months before the CAF deadline that catches most families out. Registering for the test is not the same as applying for the school.
If more children reach the standard than there are places, these 5 criteria decide.
Every applicant must first live in the Inner Area and reach the qualifying standard in the test. The 192 places are then filled in the order below, and within every criterion children are ranked by their combined age-standardised test score. A child with an EHCP naming the school is admitted within the 192. A tie for the last place is broken first in favour of Pupil Premium children, then children with musical ability, then by the shortest distance to the school. Tap any criterion to see the exact wording.
In plain English: Children in council care, or who were in care before being adopted (including from state care outside England), come first — provided they rank in the top 900 on the combined Maths and Verbal Reasoning score, which qualifies them to have their English paper marked. Upload the evidence (care order, adoption, special guardianship) at registration. There is no limit on the number admitted under this criterion, and unusually it does not require an Inner Area address.
What the document says: The highest priority in the oversubscription criteria must be given to looked after children and previously looked after children… ranked between 1 and 900 in the combined age-standardised score for Verbal Reasoning and Mathematics… There is no requirement for qualifying applicants to reside in our published Inner Area (Oversubscription Criterion 1).
In plain English: Up to 20 places are reserved for children whose families receive the Pupil Premium — that is, Free School Meals or Universal Credit — who live in the Inner Area and rank in the top 900 on the Maths and Verbal Reasoning score. Qualifying children have their English marked and are then ranked by combined score for these places. You must upload documentary evidence of eligibility at registration, or the priority is not applied.
What the document says: Up to 20 applicants will be considered for a place provided they can submit supporting evidence showing receipt of Universal Credit, or Free School Meals… ranked between 1 and 900 in the combined age-standardised score… and reside within the Inner Area… capped at 20. Offers will be made in rank order of the tests (Oversubscription Criterion 2).
In plain English: Up to 20 places go to children who show exceptional musical ability, live in the Inner Area and rank in the top 700 on the Maths and Verbal Reasoning score. You complete a separate music form at registration with evidence of standard on any instrument or voice; the school may audition up to 32 children in October to gauge musicality, though not everyone is auditioned. There is no written music test, and several musically able children are admitted on academic score anyway without using a music place.
What the document says: Up to 20 applicants will be considered for a music place if they are ranked between 1 and 700 in the combined age-standardised score… and reside within the Inner Area… A separate music form will need to be completed… the school may audition up to 32 applicants… capped at 20 (Oversubscription Criterion 3).
In plain English: This is how most children get in. After the looked-after, Pupil Premium and music places are filled, the remaining places go to the highest-scoring children living anywhere in the Inner Area — a list of postal districts across Enfield, Edmonton, Tottenham, Wood Green and north London — in strict rank order of combined test score. There is no closer/further sub-zone within it; every in-area child competes on the same score.
What the document says: Applicant's resident in the Inner Area in rank order (Oversubscription Criterion 4). The Inner Area means applicants whose Main Address is in the following postcode areas: E2, E4, E5, E8, E9, E17, EN1, EN2, EN3, EN4, EN5 (Sectors 1, 2, 4, 5 only), EN8 (Sectors 7, 8, 9 only), N1 (not N1C), N2–N22.
In plain English: Children living outside the published Inner Area are not considered for a place at all, however high they score. If you move into the Inner Area later — and provide evidence of the new address by 7 January 2027 — your child can then be considered. This is the one hard line in Latymer's arrangements: the test result does not help a child living outside the area.
What the document says: Applicant's resident outside of the published criteria will not be considered until resident within the Inner Area (Oversubscription Criterion 5). Only children residing in one of these postcodes will be admitted to the school.
A real boundary — a list of postcodes.
Latymer admits by test score, but the Inner Area is a hard boundary: only children living inside it can be admitted. It is a list of postal districts — the EN codes of Enfield, Ponders End and Cockfosters, the N codes across Edmonton, Tottenham, Wood Green, Palmers Green, Southgate, Finchley and much of north London, and parts of east London (E2, E4, E5, E8, E9, E17). Two districts are restricted to named sectors — EN5 (sectors 1, 2, 4, 5, around High Barnet) and EN8 (sectors 7, 8, 9, around Cheshunt and Waltham Cross) — and N1 excludes the N1C King's Cross zone. Your child must live at a qualifying address by 7 January 2027.
Distance itself is only a final tiebreaker: where two children have the same score for the last available place — and after the Pupil Premium and musical-ability tiebreaks — the place goes to the child living closest to the school, measured using the local authority's distance calculation.
See the catchment area on the GrammarBound mapInside the area: in the race. Outside: not considered at all.
Child A lives in Palmers Green (N13) — inside the Inner Area — so once they reach the standard they are ranked by combined test score for the places (criterion 4), or for the Pupil Premium or music bands if they qualify. Child B lives in Potters Bar (EN6), outside the Inner Area, so they cannot be offered a place at all — the test score does not help. The difference is the Inner Area, not the score.
You have two routes, and you can use both.
Waiting list
If your child isn't offered a place, the school holds a ranked waiting list of up to 50 applicants, in rank order of the assessment tests — by score, not first-come-first-served, and with no need to re-sit. The list runs from when offers are confirmed until 31 December. Children who sat the test but did not originally name Latymer can be added late, and families who move into the Inner Area from the Outer Area can be reconsidered in rank order.
Priority on the waiting list is by the test rank, not by the date you asked to join.
Appeal
You have a statutory right of appeal against the school's decision not to offer a place; your council notifies you of the appeals process on National Offer Day. Appeals are heard by an independent panel, and you'll be told the deadline to lodge yours. A repeat appeal in the same year, for the same school, is only heard if your circumstances have materially changed. Appealing does not affect your child's waiting-list position.
Joining Year 12 at Latymer.
Internal Year 11 students who meet the academic requirements move up; the school also offers around 50 external places each September, with priority to applicants living in the Inner Area. Entry is on a Year 11 assessment test and GCSE results.
The grade floor.
Applicants need at least six grade 7s overall at GCSE, a grade 7 in each subject they want to study at A-level, and a minimum of grade 5 in English and Maths. Further Maths requires a grade 8 in GCSE Maths. Subjects in Maths and the sciences carry a compulsory one-off assessment test, sat in Year 11; provisional offers go to the highest scorers and become firm once GCSE results meet the floor.
Register in the autumn of Year 11.
External applicants register through the Applicaa+ platform, which opens to Year 11 applicants early in the autumn term, with the closing date for registration forms in early December and the assessment tests in January. Priority is given to applicants living in the same Inner Area as Year 7. Provisional offers depend on the assessment test and become full offers only once GCSE results meet the minimum requirements; unsuccessful applicants have the right of appeal.