St Helen and St Katharine
11+ Admissions Guide 2026

St Helen and St Katharine is an independent day school for girls, situated on a 22-acre site on the outskirts of Abingdon. The school is a registered charity, overseen by a board of trustees, and came into being in 1938 following the merger of two independent day and boarding schools. It is organised into four sections: the junior school (Years 5 and 6), the lower school (Years 7 and 8), the middle school (Years 9 to 11), and the sixth form (Years 12 and 13). The school aims to enable every girl to discover and develop her own strengths, to grow in academic aspiration, and to gain the self-belief and confidence to equip them for life. The curriculum includes computer science and the extended project qualification (EPQ), and the school has developed its use of technology throughout. The school supports pupils with a range of needs, including 93 pupils identified as having special educational needs and/or disabilities, all of whom receive additional specialist help. Nine pupils speak English as an additional language, supported by their classroom teachers. The school also stretches its more able pupils through extension, supra-curricular, and extra-curricular activities.

Students in years 5–10 hand in their mobile phones during morning registration and retrieve them at the end of the school day