Boston High School

Boston High School is a selective girls' grammar school for Years 7 to 11, with a mixed sixth form from 16 to 18. Its own homepage sets out that dual character plainly: girls enter the grammar school at 11, while the sixth form welcomes a broader intake. The school traces its story to 1921, when it opened at Allan House on Carlton Road, and its leadership presents BHS as a community built around excellence, diversity, academic and personal growth, and the motto Non nobis solum, now carried in the language of leading, learning and together.

The curriculum emphasis is practical as well as academic. The sixth-form pages describe 23 subjects, A Level and vocational-style Level 3 routes, a dedicated sixth-form tutoring structure, external speakers, university preparation and volunteering. That gives the school a more varied post-16 identity than its selective lower-school structure might suggest. At 11 to 16, the school positions itself as ambitious and supportive, with pupils talking about sport, music groups, trips and a curriculum that helps them build confidence and skills.

The wider school offer is strongest where it shows pupils taking part in house life, sports clubs, music, trips, student support and the library. The site is less expansive on named specialist facilities than some larger grammar schools, but the sixth-form material points to supervised study space, evolving sixth-form facilities and a dedicated Key Stage 5 team. BHS is selective for girls at entry to Year 7, then becomes more open and co-educational in the sixth form.

Year 7 has 108 places. The 2027 route is live, while the full 2027/28 policy was still marked as coming soon in the admissions material, so the latest detailed route uses the 2026/27 policy alongside the school admissions page. The test uses GL-style verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning papers, and applicants must meet the minimum required standardised score on both papers; no numeric cutoff is given on the school page. If there are more eligible applicants than places, priority runs through looked-after and previously looked-after children, Pupil Premium applicants, siblings, straight-line distance and then a lottery tie-break. Public measures show Ofsted Good from the 2018 inspection, +0.37 Progress 8, 91.6% grade 5+ in English and maths, and 12.2% AAB or better at A level.