King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford

Term dates

This school sets its own term dates, which are different from Essex council's. See the school's own term dates.

Admissions

Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.

Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK

Selective school: Year 7 entry is by an entrance test (the 11+). Registration for the test usually closes in the summer of Year 5.

For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 412 families put this school as their first choice, and 149 places were offered. 143 of the families who put it first got a place (35%). More families put it first than there were places.

Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.

11+ entrance test

This school uses CSSE 11+ Selective Test (Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex), a shared test used by 6 other schools. Your child sits one test, and the result is shared with every school in the group that you apply to.

How shared 11+ tests work

Before and after school

These clubs are registered with Ofsted at the school's postcode, so usually run on the school site:

• Stagecoach Chelmsford. Ofsted report
• School's Out Activities at King Edward VI Grammar School, holiday club. Ofsted report

Ask the club or the school about times, prices and places. More clubs nearby.

Ofsted inspection

Report card, 10 February 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.

Inclusion

Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching

Strong standard

Achievement

Exceptional

Attendance and behaviour

Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Strong standard

Sixth form

Exceptional

Leadership and governance

Strong standard

Safeguarding standards: met.

Previous inspection, 8 December 2021. Overall: Outstanding

Read the Ofsted reports

From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.

About and location

Type

Academy

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–18

Pupils

1153 (capacity 1142)

Gender

Mixed

Academy trust

KING EDWARD VI GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CHELMSFORD

Admissions

Selective (entrance test)

Phone

01245353510

Address

Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, CM1 3SX

Website

kegs.org.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports