Schools / Wellington College
Wellington College
- Independent school
- Co-educational
- Day & boarding
- Ages 12–19
- 1,170 pupils
Wellington College is an independent co-educational boarding school in Crowthorne, Berkshire. Its main point of entry is Year 9 (13+), assessed in Year 6 — families register by 30 June of Year 5 — through the ISEB Pre-Test, an assessment day and interview; conditional offers made in March depend solely on a positive end-of-Year-8 school report, as the College does not use Common Entrance.
RegionSouth East
DfE URN110125
The exam
Athena holds admission-route records for Wellington College. They are shown by entry cycle below; where the provider changes between cycles, each cycle keeps its own recorded exam.
Registration deadline: register by 30 June of Year 5. Registration for these schools closes well before the entrance tests — check the school's own admissions page for the exact form and dates.
2027 entry
Set by ISEB (tests commissioned from GL Assessment)
Confirmation: Confirmed on school reports — no confirmation exam
Register by: 30 June of Year 5
13+ entry - Stage 1 (the 11+ pre-test stage, in Year 6): candidates for Wellington sit the ISEB Common Pre-Test in October/November of Year 6 (registration closes 30 June of Year 5), followed by an assessment day and interview in January/February, leading to conditional offers in March confirmed solely by a positive end-of-Year-8 school report. See the school's Independent School 13+ Entry route for the full pathway.
9489 published practice questions tagged for this exam
Route record: unverified · Route source
Set by ISEB Common Entrance / school scholarship papers
Confirmation: Confirmed on school reports — no confirmation exam
Register by: 30 June of Year 5
Wellington assesses for 13+ in Year 6 (register by 30 June of Year 5): ISEB Pre-Test, then an assessment day and interview, with conditional offers in March. The offer is conditional solely on a positive end-of-Year-8 school report — Wellington does not use Common Entrance or any Year 8 examination.
Route record: unverified · Route source
2028 entry
Set by ISEB (tests commissioned from GL Assessment)
Confirmation: Confirmed on school reports — no confirmation exam
Register by: 30 June of Year 5
13+ entry - Stage 1 (the 11+ pre-test stage, in Year 6): candidates for Wellington sit the ISEB Common Pre-Test in October/November of Year 6 (registration closes 30 June of Year 5), followed by an assessment day and interview in January/February, leading to conditional offers in March confirmed solely by a positive end-of-Year-8 school report. See the school's Independent School 13+ Entry route for the full pathway.
9489 published practice questions tagged for this exam
Route record: unverified · Route source
Set by ISEB Common Entrance / school scholarship papers
Confirmation: Confirmed on school reports — no confirmation exam
Register by: 30 June of Year 5
Wellington assesses for 13+ in Year 6 (register by 30 June of Year 5): ISEB Pre-Test, then an assessment day and interview, with conditional offers in March. The offer is conditional solely on a positive end-of-Year-8 school report — Wellington does not use Common Entrance or any Year 8 examination.
Route record: unverified · Route source
Key dates & preparation
2028 entry
Test: Stage A pre-assessment during Year 6 (some schools assess in Year 7); confirmation — Common Entrance or the school’s own process — in May/June of Year 8 (see the route description for this school’s exact model)
Results: Conditional offers follow the Stage A assessment, typically by the spring of Year 6
Offers: Places are confirmed in Year 8 once the school’s confirmation condition is met (see the route description)
When to start preparing: Start preparing in the spring term of Year 5 (the standing rule: about 18 months before the test).
General guidance: this follows the rule of thumb of starting about 18 months before the test. It is not the school's own published advice.
Source: official admissions information · checked 2026-10-28
2027 entry
Test: Stage A pre-assessment during Year 6 (some schools assess in Year 7); confirmation — Common Entrance or the school’s own process — in May/June of Year 8 (see the route description for this school’s exact model)
Results: Conditional offers follow the Stage A assessment, typically by the spring of Year 6
Offers: Places are confirmed in Year 8 once the school’s confirmation condition is met (see the route description)
When to start preparing: Start preparing in the spring term of Year 5 (the standing rule: about 18 months before the test).
General guidance: this follows the rule of thumb of starting about 18 months before the test. It is not the school's own published advice.
Source: official admissions information · checked 2026-10-28
Admissions rules
No catchment — open competition
There is no catchment area. Entry at 13+ is governed by the school’s own pre-assessment and confirmation process (see the route description); registration deadlines fall early — typically during Year 5 or Year 6 — and places at this level are heavily oversubscribed.
Read the school's admissions policy
Results & destinations
2025 results
GCSE: 87% of GCSE grades were 9–7 (42% grade 9; 68% grades 9–8)
School-published
A level: Average point score per A level entry 46.38 (average grade A-); 42.5% of A level students achieved AAB or higher
DfE performance tables
University destinations:
- 117 leavers — Russell Group universities — School-published: '117 pupils will join Russell Group universities' in 2025. (The school also reports 35 pupils to its own 'G5' grouping — Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial, King's College London and LSE — which is not one of the stored scopes.)
Source: official source · checked 2026-10-28 · official source · checked 2026-10-28
2024 results
A level: Average point score per A level entry 48.51 (average grade A)
DfE performance tables
Source: official source · checked 2026-10-28
Scholarships & bursaries
Schemes recorded from the school's own published information. A scholarship is a merit award; a bursary is means-tested. Values are shown exactly as the school states them — where a scheme is honorary, its stated value says so.
13+ entry
Academic Scholarships (pre-entry)
ScholarshipAcademic
What is assessed: A small number of pre-entry Academic Scholarships awarded by examination and interview during Year 8. Most Wellington academic scholarships — including the seven named scholarships — are instead awarded at the end of Year 9 to pupils already in the school.
When: Year 8
What it's worth: Honorary — prestige and scholarship programme only, no fee remission
How to apply: For candidates holding or seeking a 13+ place; assessed in Year 8
Official scholarship information
Checked 2026-10-28
Music Scholarships
ScholarshipMusic
What is assessed: Music auditions for 13+ entrants (Sport, Art, Dance and Drama have no pre-entry 13+ scholarships — the College runs Inspire Days instead)
When: Auditions at the end of January of Year 8
What it's worth: Value not stated on the school's published pages
How to apply: For 13+ applicants; audition in Year 8
Official scholarship information
Checked 2026-10-28
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