Beths Grammar School is a selective boys' grammar school on Hartford Road in Bexley, with a co-educational sixth form and around 1,664 pupils on roll. The school presents itself through three plain values - excellence, community and respect - and that comes through in the way its website talks about scholarship: ambitious, hard-working, and still attentive to the habits that make pupils rounded rather than narrowly drilled.
The academic programme is broad for a boys' grammar, with art, drama, music, computing, humanities, languages, science and games all visible in the lower-school curriculum. The sixth form is a major part of Beths' identity: it is selective, inclusive and co-educational, with more than 30 qualifications available locally, so students can build A-level combinations around genuine subject interests rather than a small fixed menu.
School life has a strong community thread, from student leadership and enrichment to the school's emphasis on service beyond the site. The sixth-form centre gives older students a distinct base, while recent public data is notably secure: 100% grade 5+ in English and maths, with positive Progress 8 and sixth-form A-level outcomes.
Year 7 admission is through the Bexley Selection Test, with 192 places. Beths does not operate as a simple score-only queue: the highest Bexley scorers have priority, followed by published sibling, staff-child, pupil-premium/free-school-meal and distance rules, with a supplementary form needed for some criteria. The latest applications record lists 1,015 applications for 192 offers, so the distance and priority details are not administrative fine print; they are part of how offers are actually made.
