Admissions to Tonbridge School

City (Metropolitan Area): London

Applicant Eligible Countries: Worldwide

Study Levels: High School / Secondary School

Price: £13,482 per term for a boarding place and £10,114 per term for a day place.

Each year, the Tonbridge School invites talented young men to join the school’s diverse population of gifted learners. Most of the school’s 780 or more students join the school at age 13 in the First Year, but several also begin in the Second Year and Lower Sixth Year. This allows for a unique mix of boarders and day students.

There are seven boarding Houses and five day boy Houses at Tonbridge, each consisting of about sixty boys. The House is the center of the students’ daily lives, and provides each student with access to a close-knit community inside the school. Parents may express a preference for a different house, but this is not guaranteed. Each House lists for entry about two and a half years in advance of the date of entry. Candidates may only register on House lists when they have already accepted a conditional offer of admission.

Roughly sixty percent of all students are boarders, most of whom are geographically diverse. Ninety percent of students live within a two hour drive of the school, but significant groups come from other areas as well, with over twenty-five different nationalities represented in the school.

Tonbridge awards a number of scholarships, with fifteen boys offered full fee remission and another fifteen receiving over eighty percent fee remission. Scholarships are awarded in both Year 6 and Year 8, recognizing students who show outstanding academic potential as well as supplementary skills like musical or artistic talent.

Registration is generally requested three years before entry into the school. Boys will be invited to complete the ISEB common pre-test and to attend an Assessment Afternoon in Year 6. Current schools must send a detailed report on each applicant and must later accept an Unconditional Offer of a Place. This offer is subject to a satisfactory final report from the current school.

Questions about the application and enrollment process may be directed to the Tonbridge School Admissions Office at

Email: admissions@tonbridge-school.org
Phone: +44 (0)173230429.

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