Academy · Buckinghamshire
Wycombe High School
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Girls
- Selective (11+)
- Sixth form
Term dates
Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Buckinghamshire council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
2027/28
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, 263 families put this school as their first choice, and 190 places were offered. 157 of the families who put it first got a place (60%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 190 | 263 | 60% |
| September 2025 | 191 | 227 | 67% |
| September 2024 | 191 | 244 | 70% |
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 Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test, a shared test used by 12 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:
- Stagecoach Performing Arts High Wycombe. Ofsted report
Ask the club or the school about times, prices and places. More clubs nearby.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 30 April 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
- 1371 (capacity 1265)
- Gender
- Girls
- Academy trust
- WYCOMBE HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIES TRUST
- Admissions
- Selective (entrance test)
- Phone
- 01494523961
- Address
- Marlow Road, High Wycombe, HP11 1TB
- Website
- whs.bucks.sch.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.