11+ Tuition in Enfield

The Latymer School in Edmonton is Enfield's only academically selective secondary school, a voluntary aided grammar admitting 192 children a year by rank order in tests set largely by GL Assessment. Enfield Grammar School (Year 7 intake 180) and Edmonton County School keep 'Grammar' and 'County' in their names but both admit non-selectively, on distance, sibling and care-status priority rather than a test.

Grammar Schools and Selective Entry in Enfield

Only one of Enfield's three best-known "grammar" schools is actually selective. The Latymer School, in Edmonton, is a voluntary aided grammar school that tests every applicant and admits by rank order; its own determined admission arrangements for entry in September 2027 state that it is a "Voluntary Aided Selective Grammar School for boys and girls aged 11-18." Enfield Grammar School, whose history goes back to 1558, says the opposite of itself: "Enfield Grammar School is NOT a selective grammar school; we are proud to be a comprehensive secondary school, where all are welcome." Edmonton County School, a co-educational all-through school, is admitted through the London Borough of Enfield's ordinary priority criteria — looked-after children, medical need, siblings and distance — with no academic test at any point in the process.

The confusion is understandable: both schools kept historic names from a period when more of the borough's secondaries selected by ability, and neither is required to rebrand simply because its admissions policy changed since. Families searching for "grammar schools in Enfield" most often mean either Latymer specifically, or are trying to work out which of the three actually requires a test — and for September 2027 entry, only Latymer does.

That does not make Enfield Grammar School or Edmonton County School a fallback of lower standing. Enfield Grammar's own supplementary process reserves places for sport and music aptitude rather than academic score, and both schools set their own Published Admission Number and take their intake through the borough's ordinary secondary transfer round, the same route as any other Enfield comprehensive.

The Entrance Exams — What Your Child Will Face

For families targeting The Latymer School, the September 2027 entry test was sat on one of three days — Thursday 3rd, Friday 4th or Saturday 5th September 2026 — with each applicant attending a single session covering all papers. Registration (the school's own Supplementary Information Form) was open from Tuesday 17 March 2026 to Tuesday 2 June 2026, alongside the separate Common Application Form lodged with the family's home local authority.

The test itself has three parts. The Mathematics and Verbal Reasoning papers are both multiple-choice and are set and marked by GL Assessment, not the school; each runs 30 minutes, scored by Optical Mark Recognition and combined into a single age-standardised rank. The English paper, by contrast, is set and marked by Latymer's own staff: 60 minutes split into 30 minutes of reading comprehension on an extract and 30 minutes of creative writing. Only applicants ranked in the top 700 on the combined Maths and Verbal Reasoning score have their English paper marked at all — a lower rank means the English paper is never read, regardless of how well a child might have written it.

Latymer only admits from a published Inner Area, and the postcode list matters as much as the test score: E2, E4, E5, E8, E9, E17, EN1, EN2, EN3, EN4, part of EN5, part of EN8, and N1 (excluding N1C) through N22. Priority within that area is assessed as of 7 January 2027, so a family that moves into the Inner Area after registering for the test must supply evidence of the new address by that date to be considered.

One further change is coming, but not for this cycle. The Latymer School has confirmed that its 11+ assessment moves to a Quest Assessments format — Mathematics, English Comprehension and English Writing — from September 2027, for entry in September 2028. Families applying for the September 2027 intake sat the existing GL Assessment and school-set format described above; the new format applies to the cohort a year behind them.

Neither Enfield Grammar School nor Edmonton County School sets any equivalent entrance test. Applicants are ranked only by the local authority's ordinary oversubscription criteria once places are oversubscribed, so no 11+-style preparation is required, or relevant, for either school's general admissions round.

How Places Are Allocated: Ranking, Thresholds and Waiting Lists

Latymer allocates its 192 places purely by rank, not by a published pass mark: the Mathematics and Verbal Reasoning papers are scored first and combined into a single age-standardised figure, and only applicants ranked 1st to 700th on that combined score have their English paper marked at all. The final ranking re-combines the marked English score with the original Maths and Verbal Reasoning score, so a candidate can move up or down the table once English is added — but nobody outside the top 700 on the first score gets that chance. Governors then offer places to the top 192 on the final ranking and place the next 50 highest-ranked applicants on a waiting list. A separate, wider top-900 combined-score threshold applies to two further oversubscription criteria, both of which have their English paper marked regardless of where they rank within that wider band: "1. Looked after children" — the school's highest-priority criterion, covering looked after and previously looked after children — and "2. Universal Credit/Free School Meals", capped at up to 20 places for applicants who can evidence receipt of Universal Credit or Free School Meals.

Enfield Grammar School and Edmonton County School allocate their places differently again, because neither ranks by test score. Enfield Grammar's Year 7 Published Admission Number is 180; if applications exceed places, priority runs through looked-after children, medical need, a sport or music aptitude assessment covering up to 18 places (10% of the year group), staff children, siblings and finally distance. Edmonton County School, whose admissions are run by the London Borough of Enfield rather than the school itself, prioritises looked-after children, medical need, siblings, and then distance measured as the crow flies between home and a point midway between its two sites. Neither process involves comparing a child's performance on any test.

How to Prepare — Timeline and Strategy for Enfield Families

For most children, a preparation window of 12 to 18 months before the exam is realistic and appropriate. This doesn't mean intensive drilling from the outset — it means building the right foundations early and increasing the pace and specificity of practice as the exam approaches. In Year 4 or early Year 5, the priority is strengthening core skills: reading widely and analytically, developing mathematical fluency, and beginning to encounter verbal reasoning for the first time — and non-verbal reasoning too, for any family also considering a Barnet grammar school. Many children have never seen these question types before, and early exposure removes the element of surprise.

From around Easter of Year 5, preparation should become more structured and exam-focused. This is the point at which timed practice papers, targeted gap analysis, and exam technique work become central. For Latymer specifically, the writing component deserves sustained attention throughout — a child who writes with confidence, range, and precision has a meaningful advantage. Families targeting both Latymer and a Barnet grammar school such as Queen Elizabeth's or The Henrietta Barnett should plan their preparation to cover both schools' own formats, since neither shares a test, a registration form or a timetable with the other.

Avoid the common mistake of treating practice papers as the entirety of preparation. Papers reveal gaps — they don't fill them. When a child answers a question incorrectly, the follow-up work to understand why and correct the underlying misunderstanding is where real progress happens.

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If Your Child Isn't in Latymer's Inner Area: Other Routes to a Grammar School Place

Latymer's Inner Area rules out a meaningful part of Enfield outright: a child living outside the published postcode list cannot be admitted however well they score, so checking the postcode list above is worth doing before committing to a year of preparation. Families in that position, or applying to Latymer as one option among several, typically look in one of two directions.

The first is a neighbouring borough's selective schools. Barnet's grammar schools — Queen Elizabeth's School, The Henrietta Barnett School and Dame Alice Owen's — sit close enough to parts of Enfield to be realistic applications for some families, though each sets its own separate registration, test format and catchment or priority-area rules, entirely independent of Latymer's. Our North London 11+ page and our comparison of the Barnet and Enfield grammar schools set out each school's September 2027 test format, registration window and area rules side by side, so a family can work out which are genuinely within reach before preparing for any of them.

The second is taking Enfield Grammar School and Edmonton County School on their real terms, as strong non-selective comprehensives rather than back-up grammar schools. Since neither sets an entrance test, the useful preparation is different in kind: gathering the evidence an application may actually need — a sibling already on roll, a home address, or for Enfield Grammar's separate scheme, a sport or music portfolio — rather than 11+-style practice papers aimed at a test that school does not set.

How Leading Tuition Supports Enfield 11+ Preparation

Leading Tuition provides specialist 1-to-1 tutoring for Enfield families across all three schools' actual admissions routes: GL Assessment-style Mathematics and Verbal Reasoning and Latymer's own English paper for children inside its published Inner Area, and the broader reasoning, writing and comprehension skills that support a strong application to a neighbouring Barnet grammar school for families outside it. For Enfield Grammar School and Edmonton County School, where there is no entrance test, our tutors focus on the school subjects and study habits that make the strongest possible start once a place is confirmed through the ordinary admissions process.

Our tutors are experienced with the specific demands of Latymer's three papers — including how marking only proceeds to English once a candidate clears the top-700 threshold — and with the format each neighbouring grammar school sets. See our dedicated Latymer School Edmonton 11+ preparation page for school-specific detail, or our wider Enfield tutoring page for support beyond the 11+ years. Our students have achieved a 95%+ offer rate across selective school entry.

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Reviewed September 2026: Enfield's three schools' admissions status, test format and September 2027 key dates checked against The Latymer School's own determined admission arrangements, Enfield Grammar School's and Edmonton County School's own admissions pages, and gov.uk's national secondary offer-day guidance.

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