Application Form for 2023 entry

Our online application form is now LIVE. Please click here to register. We welcome applications after the deadline. If you apply late and are successful in the Entrance Test and Interview, you would be considered after other successful applicants, and go into the waiting pool until a place became available.

If you are interested in applying for September 2024 or later, please fill in our Expression of Interest Form, and we will contact you when we are holding admissions events for your year group.

Important Dates for 2023 entry

We will add more detailed dates to this table before applications open.

Saturday 8 October	Applications open (Online)
Saturday 8 October – morning	Taster Day 1
Saturday 8 October – afternoon	Taster Day 2
Saturday 5 November	Taster Day 3
Monday 7 November	Early Application Deadline Get your application for 2023 entry in by 11pm for a guaranteed place at our Entrance Test Preparation Workshop
Saturday 19 November	Entrance Test Preparation Workshop Students who have submitted their EMS applications by early deadline will automatically be invited to this online and in-person event
Saturday 3 December	Taster Day 4
Monday 5 December	Final Application Deadline (11pm)
Saturday 10 December	Entrance Test (In School)
Saturday 11 February and Monday 13 February	Interviews (In School)
Early March	Conditional Offers
Saturday 11 March	Boarding Information Day
Monday 20 March	Acceptance of Place Deadline and Residential Application Deadline
Tuesday 4 July	New Student Information Day
Thursday 24 August	GCSE Results Day
Friday 25 August	Enrolment Day

September 2023 Entry

To be eligible to join in 2023 you must be:

Resident within Cornwall, Devon, Dorset or Somerset* AND EITHER
Born between 1st September 2006 and 31st August 2007 OR
Born between 1st September 2007 and 31st August 2008 and in your final year of GCSEs.

In exceptional circumstances, applications will be considered from students born between 1st September 2005 and 31st August 2006.

You must also meet the minimum entry criteria, detailed on the ‘How It Works’ page.

*Applicants from outside the school catchment area will only be considered if places remain once all students within the four counties have been considered.