Wycombe Abbey School

Frances Dove Way High Wycombe HP11 1PE
11-18 Years
Girls

Open Days

Description

  • Wycombe Abbey is an independent girls' boarding and day school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.
  • It is consistently ranked as one of the top all-girls schools in academic results.
  • The school was founded in 1896 and has capacity of approximately 650 girls, aged 11 to 18. 
  • The school is on a 69 hectare campus in central High Wycombe.
  • It is consistently ranked as one of the top all-girls schools in academic results.

Facilities

  • Within the purpose-built sports centre girls have access to an impressive dance studio and smaller practice areas.
  • The Lancaster Arts centre has a 430 seat theatre. The theatre is fully equipped with sound and lighting facilities.There is also a green room and generously stocked wardrobe.
  • The school has three orchestras, string, wind and vocal ensembles, a choral society and four choirs.
  • They also have exceptional indoor and outdoor facilities including six lacrosse pitches, a grass athletics track, rounders pitches, a floodlift astroturf pitch, indoor and outdoor netball courts and 20 tennis courts.

Features

  • Girls
  • Ofsted Rating: Good
  • ISEC Number: 11317
  • DFC Number: 825 / 6018

Things to note

  • As at most independent schools, the pupils are placed in houses.
  • The land includes woods, gardens, a Cold War bunker (RAF Daws Hill) and a lake, and rises up to 150 metres above sea level in the Chiltern Hills.

Extra Curricular

  • Girls at Wycombe Abbey enjoy a wide variety of interests and oppurtunities in the arts. Girls take part in dance, drama and music.
  • The school offers a huge selection of trips around the world and closer to home, which are designed to enable the girls to experience the world and gain a global worldview. 
  • Wycombe Abbey has an impressive sporting reputation. The extensive sporting facilities and the dedication, experience and high calibre of the coaches support each girl to follow their sporting ambition.

Selection Criteria: Selective

Admission Details

Wycombe Abbey entry points are 11+, 13+ and 16+ .

To be considered for a place at Wycombe Abbey, your daughter must be registered by 1 June in the year prior to entry (Year 5).

The assessment has three stages:

  • Stage 1: Online CAT4
  • Stage 2: Assessment Day
  • Stage 3: Scholarship Examinations (not always)

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If you have any questions please email [email protected]

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Fees

For the academic year 2023/2024, fees are:

  • £15,900 Boarding per term
  • £12,000 Day per term
  • Registration Fee: £350
  • Acceptance Deposit: £2,500

Scholarships

Wycombe Abbey Scholarships and Exhibition Awards carry considerable prestige both inside and outside of the School but are of limited financial value. They are awarded in recognition of excellence, achievement and potential in academia and the arts.

Music Scholarship forms are provided before Assessment, once candidates are Registered for entry.

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Achievements

Examination Results and University Destinations

Wycombe Abbey has a long tradition of academic success. The learning environment is supportive, yet challenging and our teaching specialists communicate a genuine love of their subject, encouraging all our pupils to pursue an intellectual curiosity beyond the curriculum.

As the UK’s top girls’ boarding school we consistently achieve superb academic success. Our girls perform exceptionally across many different disciplines, achieving excellent results in public examinations. The GCSE and A level results for 2022/2023 were outstanding with 90% of examinations awarded 8 or 9 (A*) and 97.5% of results at 7 – 9 (A-A*) in GCSE. At A level, 92% of results were grades A*-B.

Each year girls gain places at high-ranking universities on competitive courses. One-third secure Oxbridge offers with the majority heading to Russell Group universities or prestigious Art, Drama or Music Schools. Increasingly, girls are choosing to apply to universities around the world; US universities are proving particularly popular with offers coming from Brown University, Duke University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of T

Each year pupils are offered places at highly selective universities on competitive courses. While Oxbridge does remain a popular route for many pupils, increasingly they are looking more widely and thinking more broadly about the experience they wish to have and the skills they hope to acquire. In particular, their scope is increasingly global in nature and universities in the United States are proving particularly popular.

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