Application Form for 2025 entry

Our Application Form is now open for September 2025 Entry. Apply at ems.applicaa.com/apply25

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 becomes available.

Please note that we offer support throughout the admissions process for students eligible for Free School Meals, click here for further details.

If you are interested in applying for September 2026 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 2025 entry

Thursday 3 October	Application Form open – ems.applicaa.com/apply25
Saturday 19 October – morning	Taster Day 1
Saturday 19 October – afternoon	Taster Day 2
Monday 25 November (approx)	Entrance Test Preparation Materials sent out to early applicants (with additional material for students entitled to Free School Meals)
Saturday 30 November – morning	Taster Day 3
Saturday 30 November – afternoon	Taster Day 4
Sunday 8 December	Application Deadline (11.59pm) (What if I miss it?)
Monday 9 December (approx)	Entrance Test Preparation Materials sent out to applicants (with additional material for students entitled to Free School Meals)
Saturday 25 January	Entrance Test (In School)
Saturday 8 February	Mock Interviews for Students Entitled to Free School Meals (Why is this?)
Saturday 8 March	Interviews (In School)
Mid-March – TBC	Conditional Offers
Saturday 22 March	Boarding Information Day
Saturday 22 March	Late Admissions Mop-Up Day (Entrance Test and Interviews)
Late March – TBC	Acceptance of Place Deadline and Residential Application Deadline
Tuesday 1 July	New Student Information Day
Thursday 21 August	GCSE Results Day
Friday 22 August	Enrolment Day and Boarding Moving In Day
Wednesday 27 August	Alternative Boarding Moving In Day

September 2025 Entry

To be eligible to join in 2025 you must be:

Resident within Cornwall, Devon, Dorset or Somerset* AND EITHER
Born between 1st September 2008 and 31st August 2009 OR
Born between 1st September 2009 and 31st August 2010 and in your final year of GCSEs.

In exceptional circumstances, applications will be considered from students born between 1st September 2007 and 31st August 2008.

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.