Gayhurst School
11+ Admissions Guide 2026

Gayhurst School is an independent co-educational day school set within extensive grounds on the outskirts of Gerrards Cross. Founded in 1908 as a boys' school, it moved to its current site in 1930 and became co-educational in its centenary year of 2008. The school is arranged as a junior school for pupils from nursery to year 2 and a senior school for pupils from year 3 to year 6. The school aims to enable pupils to explore and develop their academic, physical and creative interests within a broad curriculum, supported by a varied co-curricular programme. It seeks to provide a caring environment that deepens pupils' personal and social development, helping to create confident and independent children who understand the value of effort, perseverance and resilience as they prepare for secondary school. Pupils come from mainly professional family backgrounds living within a ten-mile radius of the school. The school identifies and supports pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, including dyslexia, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, and autism, and also provides additional support for some pupils who speak English as an additional language.