Academy · Southend-on-Sea
Southend High School for Girls
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Girls
- Selective (11+)
- Sixth form
Term dates
We haven't checked Southend-on-Sea's term dates yet. See the school's website.
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
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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, 271 families put this school as their first choice, and 217 places were offered. 161 of the families who put it first got a place (59%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 217 | 271 | 59% |
| September 2025 | 222 | 217 | 66% |
| September 2024 | 161 | 226 | 50% |
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.
Before and after school
This club is registered with Ofsted at the school's postcode, so usually run on the school site:
- Mega Camps Southend, holiday club. Ofsted report
Ask the club or the school about times, prices and places. More clubs nearby.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 2 July 2024. Overall: Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Sixth form
- Outstanding
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
- 1312 (capacity 1338)
- Gender
- Girls
- Academy trust
- SOUTHEND HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ACADEMY TRUST
- Admissions
- Selective (entrance test)
- Phone
- 01702588852
- Address
- Southchurch Boulevard, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 4UZ
- Website
- shsg.org
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.