Reading School is a selective boys' grammar school with Academy status. The school caters for day boys and weekly boarders alike; and since we are within the state-maintained sector, all the education provided is free.

All students must be entitled to hold a full British passport or to have the right of residence in the United Kingdom. Day Students must live within our catchment area - details of which can be found here. Boarder students pay only for their board and lodging as we are a state school and tuition fees are free.

Reading School has high academic standards, performing consistently well at all levels. In addition, music, sport and drama flourish. Rugby and cricket have strong fixture lists and most of the other sports are played to a high standard.

Reading School welcomes applications from both internal and external students who wish to join Reading School Sixth Form for their post-16 education. The minimum qualifying academic requirements apply equally to both internal and external applicants. The school offers approximately 190 places for entry into the Sixth Form each year. In a typical year, about 145 internal students will qualify to enter the Sixth Form, leaving a minimum of 45 further places for external students. The Admissions Number may be exceeded if that enables Reading School to improve the viability of projected teaching group sizes in minority subjects (i.e. to preserve a broad curriculum and for reasons of efficiency) and if it means that the number of students attracting Pupil Premium or Looked After/Previously Looked After Children can be increased).

For entry into the Sixth Form, students must have achieved the equivalent of a total of at least 56 points (9=9, 8=8, etc or if still studying old GCSE/IGCSE qualifications then A*=8, A=7, B=6 etc) from 8 GCSE subjects and at least a grade 5 at GCSE in Mathematics and English or a DfE recognised equivalency.

Individual subject requirements must also be attained and are published in the Sixth Form Information Booklet. If a student is pupil premium/service premium or Looked After Child/Previously Looked After Child then the equivalent of a total of at least 54 points from 8 GCSE subjects and at least a grade 5 at GCSE in Mathematics and English or a recognised equivalency is required.

For further details of entry, including iGCSE or AS Level equivalent conversion grades, please refer to our Admissions Policy on our website. 

For further information on admissions to our Sixth Form please refer to the Sixth Form Information Booklet which is linked below.