Aylesbury High School

Aylesbury High School is the selective girls' grammar on Walton Road in Aylesbury, serving ages 11 to 18 and drawing its identity from a long local grammar-school story. The school traces its origins through Aylesbury Grammar School back to the late sixteenth century, but its present voice is firmly that of a girls' school: AHS describes itself as the only girls' grammar in North Buckinghamshire, with girls taking centre stage in a community built around ambition, confidence and independence. The school has 1,358 pupils on roll, including the sixth form.

The curriculum is deliberately broad before pupils specialise. In Key Stage 3, creative subjects take up nearly a third of the timetable, with Art, Computing, Dance, Drama, Music, PE and Technology sitting alongside the academic core; swimming is taught through the shared pool with Aylesbury Grammar School. Science moves into Biology, Chemistry and Physics with specialist teaching during Year 9, while the Learning for Life programme covers relationships and sex education, careers, British values, and wider personal development. Sixth-form students usually take three A levels with an extension study subject.

AHS is unusually explicit about the scale of its wider offer: the school points to more than 700 leadership opportunities, more than 100 clubs and societies, and more than 70 trips each year. Its partnership with Aylesbury Grammar School across the road adds breadth to opportunities, and the published values of boundless aspiration, resilient bravery, curious engagement and selfless generosity give the co-curricular programme a recognisable language rather than making it feel like a list of extras.

Year 7 admission is through the Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test, with 189 places published for 2027 entry. The two GL papers cover English and verbal reasoning, then non-verbal reasoning and mathematics; scores are age-standardised and weighted 50% verbal, 25% mathematics and 25% non-verbal. The Buckinghamshire qualifying score is 121, with the AHS policy also reserving up to six lower-score places for specified catchment girls scoring 115 to 120. Published benchmarks are strong: Ofsted judged the school Outstanding in December 2023, and GOV.UK shows +0.81 Progress 8, 98.3% grade 5+ in English and maths, and 33.3% AAB or better at A level.