Wycombe High School

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 7), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked After / Previously Looked After / IAC / IAPLAC — A Looked After Child, Post-LAC, IAC, IAPLAC child.
2. 2Pupil Premium in catchment — Girls in receipt of Pupil Premium, who qualify and live in the Catchment Area of the School.
3. 3Ring-fenced disadvantaged places — Up to 12 places to qualified disadvantaged girls, resident in the Catchment Area, who are in receipt of the Pupil Premium, or who are LAC/Post-LAC, or IAPLAC at the time of application, and who have achieved a standardised score of between 113 and 120 in the Secondary Transfer Test.
4. 4Sisters of girls on roll (catchment) — Sisters of girls who are on the roll of the School at the time allocations are made, and who will be on the roll of the School at the time of the proposed admission, and who reside in the School's Catchment Area.
5. 5Sisters of boys at John Hampden Grammar School (catchment) — Sisters of boys who are on the roll of John Hampden Grammar School at the time allocations are made, and who will be on roll of John Hampden at the time of the proposed admissions, and who reside in the Wycombe High School's catchment Area.
6. 6Daughters of staff — Daughters of Staff who work at the School (teaching and support) where the member of Staff has been employed at the School for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the School is made, or where the member of Staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
7. 7Exceptional medical or social needs — Girls who have exceptional medical or social needs which can only be met at the School.
8. 8Catchment Area A — Girls living in Catchment Area A of the School on or before 1 September in the calendar year preceding the academic year of entry.
9. 9Catchment Area B — Girls living in Catchment Area B of the School on or before 1 September in the calendar year preceding the academic year of entry.
10. 10Distance — Once the above rules have been applied, any further places will be offered in distance order, using the distance between the girl's normal home address and the School's main entrance gate, as the crow flies, offering the closest first, using the method applied by Buckinghamshire Council.

If two applications tie: Priority within each criterion is conferred in distance order. If there are two or more Students in any criterion who are equidistant, places will be allocated by the drawing of lots, supervised by a person independent of the School.

12 places within the PAN are ring-fenced for disadvantaged girls scoring 113-120 in the STT and resident in the Catchment Area (criterion iii).

Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.