Camp Hill Girls Sixth Form Entry 2027

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls is a selective state grammar school in Kings Heath, Birmingham, that opens 30 of its Year 12 places to external applicants each September under a policy confirmed identically for both September 2026 and September 2027 entry. Candidates need six GCSEs at grade 6 or above, including English Language and Mathematics, with no points-formula ranking of the kind its brother school uses. Ofsted's own inspection data confirm the sixth form remains girls-only.

Families preparing a daughter for the Year 7 entrance test rather than the sixth form should see our Camp Hill Girls 11+ guide, which covers the standardised test, catchment wards and Year 7 admission number in full. This page is about the separate, later sixth-form route, which runs on its own rules.

What Camp Hill Girls Actually Asks For at 16+

Camp Hill Girls does not run a points formula. Its September 2027 admissions policy sets a flat floor: a minimum of six GCSE passes at grade 6 or above, including English Language and Mathematics, for both internal and external candidates. On top of that floor sits a subject-specific gate. The school's own September 2027 admissions policy states that "a grade 7 or above at GCSE is required in those subjects (or equivalent subjects) to be studied at A Level," with Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics carrying a separate recommendation of grade 8 or above "as this indicates that they will be capable of dealing with the demands of these courses." Further Mathematics sits apart from every other subject: the policy requires "a grade 9 in Mathematics GCSE," a single-grade bar with no equivalent elsewhere in the table.

None of this changed between the September 2026 and September 2027 cycles — a fact worth stating plainly, because Camp Hill Boys' equivalent thresholds did move over the same period. A family working from last year's guidance for Camp Hill Girls is working from the current policy, not an outdated one.

No Best-8 Points Formula -- But Predicted Grades Still Decide the Ranking

Camp Hill Girls' own live admissions page frames Sixth Form entry as a results-day event: "Sixth Form enrolment takes place on GCSE Results Day, and must be completed by 12pm on 20th Aug via Applicaa." Read on its own, that sentence suggests a walk-in process with no earlier ranking. The school's full determined policy tells a fuller story. Where external places are oversubscribed, most candidates are ranked before results day at all, on predicted performance: "Candidates who have achieved the highest average point score in the subjects relevant to their selected courses, based on their predicted grades... and then by distance if two candidates have the same score." The results-day step that follows is a confirmation of an already-ranked offer, not the ranking itself: "Conditional offers will become 'firm' offers when a copy of GCSE results is provided by 12 noon on GCSE results day."

That is a real, if easy to miss, parallel with Camp Hill Boys, whose own Best 8 points system is also built on predicted grades submitted months in advance. The two schools differ in the formula — a flat six-GCSE floor and average point score at Camp Hill Girls, against a 54-or-64-point Best 8 total at Camp Hill Boys — not in whether predicted grades matter. For the most recent cycle, GCSE results day fell on 20 August 2026, the same date the school's own website posted a public note congratulating its Year 11 leavers.

The Oversubscription Order, and the One Named Feeder School

Clearing the six-GCSE floor makes a candidate eligible for one of Camp Hill Girls' 30 external places. It does not rank her. The school's September 2027 policy sets a five-category order, applied only once demand exceeds supply:

King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls is the only feeder school named anywhere in the policy; no other school, state or independent, receives that priority. Even inside category 2's named-subject route, a place is not free to change: the policy warns that "where an offer is made on the basis of these subject choices, a student will not be able to change courses either before starting at the school or during the course of their sixth form studies." The school also caps how far a single subject can be oversubscribed before capacity closes it off entirely, treating "a maximum class size to be 25 students" as the practical ceiling.

In practice, most external candidates who apply from outside King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls, and who are not applying under the two-subject Arts/Languages/Humanities route in category 2, land in category 5 — the general pool ranked purely on average point score across their chosen A Level subjects. That is worth stating plainly, because it means the six-GCSE floor described above is a threshold for eligibility, not a guarantee of a place once that floor is crossed by more applicants than the school has room for. A family should read the entry requirements as the minimum bar to enter the competition, and the oversubscription table as the actual mechanism deciding who gets one of the 30 places once demand exceeds supply in a given subject or in the cohort overall.

The Pupil Premium cap in category 4 is worth reading carefully too: it applies only "up to a maximum of 25% of the total cohort," so it is not a guaranteed route for every disadvantaged applicant, only a priority within a fixed share of the places. Once that 25% is filled, remaining Pupil Premium candidates compete in category 5 alongside everyone else, on the same average-point-score basis.

Reading the oversubscription table in practice

A useful way to read the table is by elimination. A candidate who is not looked after, does not attend the named feeder school, and is not applying for two named Arts, Languages or Humanities subjects is, in effect, competing in category 5 whether or not she also qualifies for the Pupil Premium priority in category 4. Knowing which category actually applies before results day changes what a family should be planning for: a category 5 applicant is planning around predicted-grade strength across her chosen A Level subjects specifically, not around the six-GCSE floor in isolation.

What Changed Between the September 2026 and September 2027 Policies: Nothing

Both of Camp Hill Girls' determined policies were read in full for this page, not assumed to match from a single year's document. The result is a genuinely useful negative: nothing in the sixth-form entry section moved. The September 2026 policy states entry requires "a minimum of six GCSE passes at grade 6 or above, including English Language and Mathematics"; the September 2027 policy uses the identical sentence. The external admission number is 30 in both years. The Further Mathematics requirement is grade 9 in Mathematics GCSE in both years. A family working from the September 2026 guidance is not working from stale information.

Camp Hill Boys' own policies, read separately for the brother school's own page, show real movement over the same twelve months: its English GCSE floor rose from grade 5 to grade 6, its Further Mathematics requirement rose from grade 8 to grade 9, and a brand-new 54-point (three A Levels) and 64-point (four A Levels) split replaced a single flat 54-point threshold. Those changes belong to Camp Hill Boys' own admissions policy. They say nothing about Camp Hill Girls, whose policy sits still.

Resolving the Gender Question: What Every Source Actually Says

Ofsted's inspection report on King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, following its inspection on 17 and 18 November 2021 and published 26 January 2022, carries a field built for this exact question: "Gender of pupils in sixth-form provision." For this school it reads Girls, sitting alongside a school-wide "Gender of pupils: Girls" and a sixth-form roll of 352 students out of 1,099 on the whole school roll at the time. That is a settled answer from the one source designed to give it, not an open question.

Every other source checked corroborates it rather than complicating it. The Department for Education's register lists "Gender of entry: Girls," though that field is scoped to the age-11 intake and was never built to answer a sixth-form question on its own. The school's own determined admissions policy, worded identically in September 2026 and September 2027, describes King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls as "an Academy for girls aged 11-18 years" — a range that explicitly spans the sixth form. Third-party admissions platform ApplicaaOne records the school's full roll, sixth form included, as 1,113 students, 100.0% girls. The one loose end is an omission, not a contradiction: the King Edward VI Foundation's own sixth-form directory tags nine of its eleven listed sixth forms Boys, Girls or Mixed, but leaves both Camp Hill schools without any tag at all. Read against Ofsted's own field, that gap is a directory oversight, not evidence that either school's sixth form is mixed.

The Foundation Angle: One School, One Application

A family assuming that one King Edward VI application reaches several sixth forms at once is working from a false premise. The Foundation's own Sixth Form admissions page routes every applicant to a school-specific document: "Our school sixth forms welcome many external applicants each year. You can find out about a particular school sixth form policy below," followed by eleven separate schools, each linked to its own policy. Camp Hill Girls' own policy confirms the same structure from its side: "External candidates wishing to apply for a place in the Sixth Form should complete the necessary application form available on the school website and submit it by the stated deadline." There is no shared Foundation-wide sixth-form form of the kind that exists for Year 7 entry.

The Foundation is not, however, entirely siloed. Camp Hill Girls' own Year 7 admissions policy grants sibling priority to a girl with "an older sibling on roll at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys," a rule that crosses between the two schools despite their otherwise separate systems. A family weighing several King Edward VI sixth forms — Camp Hill Girls' six-GCSE floor against, say, Handsworth Grammar's own sixth-form entry route, tagged Mixed in the Foundation's directory — should treat each as its own application, on its own deadline, decided by its own policy.

How Our Camp Hill Girls 16+ Programme Is Built

Because Camp Hill Girls runs a flat six-GCSE floor rather than a weighted points total, the honest preparation question is different from a Best-8 school: which of the six required grades is genuinely at risk, and does the Further Mathematics grade-9 outlier apply to this particular student's subject choices at all. Our diagnostic is built around exactly that shape, not a generic Year 11 revision plan applied the same way to every family. Where oversubscription bites — category 5 in the table above, the most common route for an external candidate with no named-subject or feeder-school priority — the average point score across a student's chosen A Level subjects is what decides the outcome, based on predicted grades set by her current school ahead of the application deadline. We target that window specifically, because a predicted grade fixed months before results day carries as much weight in this process as the results themselves.

A family also considering the brother school should see our Camp Hill Boys sixth form page, which covers its separate Best 8 points system in full. We are rated 4.8 out of 5 from 58 reviews on Trustpilot, and 91% of our students achieve their desired grades. Both figures sit behind the same method described here: a diagnostic tied to the specific numbers a school actually uses, rather than a standard revision plan applied to every family in the same way.

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