The 11 Plus London Consortium Schools: Which Schools Share the Paper and How Offers Are Decided

The London 11+ Consortium is a group of 13 independent London day schools for girls that runs one online entrance assessment for Year 7 entry in September 2027. A girl sits it once, on Friday 27 November, Tuesday 1 December or Thursday 3 December 2026; registration closes on Friday 6 November 2026 and offers are sent on Friday 12 February 2027.

What Is the 11+ London Consortium?

The London 11+ Consortium is a group of independent London day schools with its own website, a Code of Practice and one published timetable. It says it seeks "a simple process with just one test", and its Code of Practice says: "Candidates only sit the assessment once, irrespective of the number of Consortium Schools to which they are applying." The results are shared with every school at which a girl is registered, and what each school does with them is its own decision.

The members, as the Consortium's own Code of Practice lists them, are Channing School, Francis Holland (Regent's Park), Francis Holland (Sloane Square), Godolphin and Latymer, More House, Northwood College for Girls, Notting Hill and Ealing High School, Queen's College, Queen's Gate School, South Hampstead High School, St Augustine's Priory, St Helen's School and St Margaret's School. Registration for September 2027 entry closes on Friday 6 November 2026, so the decisions fall in the autumn of Year 6 rather than Year 5: a girl born between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016 is in Year 6 when she sits the assessment and enters Year 7 in September 2027. One decision sits above the choice of schools, which is whether to apply at 11+ or to wait for 13+ entry, and our comparison of the 11+ and 13+ entry routes is worth reading first if your list is not yet settled.

Families in West London should note where the members sit: the Consortium's own site lists Notting Hill and Ealing High School and St Augustine's Priory under Ealing and Godolphin and Latymer under Hammersmith. Families weighing state selective places alongside these schools can use our guide to where West London families find selective state places, which also covers why Ealing, Hounslow and Richmond have no grammar schools of their own.

The table gives each member's own 2027-entry dates for the Consortium assessment and for interviews, as its admissions page states them. The Consortium publishes one registration deadline (Friday 6 November 2026), one offer date (Friday 12 February 2027) and one deadline to accept (noon on Wednesday 3 March 2027); each school then adds its own interview date. A dash means the school's page does not say.

Some sources give a different number of members. The More House and Queen's Gate admissions pages say 14, and two private guides also give fourteen, while the Consortium's Code of Practice lists the thirteen schools above and the Francis Holland and St Margaret's pages say 13. This page follows the Consortium's own list.

The North London Girls' Schools: Shared Paper and Key Facts

North London holds both members of the Consortium and well-known schools outside it. The Consortium's site lists Channing School under Highgate, South Hampstead High School under South Hampstead and St Margaret's under Hampstead. North London Collegiate School and Highgate School are not on the Consortium's list, and each runs its own entrance process. The facts each school publishes about itself are below.

• North London Collegiate School (NLCS) — not a member. NLCS says around 70 to 75 places are available for external applicants joining Year 7 each year, and its entrance exam is on Thursday 3 December 2026.
• South Hampstead High School — a member. It says it welcomes approximately 55 new girls into the school each year, to join those moving up from its Junior School.
• Channing School — a member. Channing says it has approximately 75 places available in Year 7 for girls applying from other schools.
• Highgate School — not a member. Its entrance exams are taken at the school in early December, and it says a significant proportion of candidates are invited back for a second stage in January.

Sitting once is the Consortium's central rule, and the practical questions are where and when. A girl takes the assessment at her current school where that school hosts it: the Consortium says "for important logistical reasons we ask that you take up this facility", and also that "The location at which a candidate sits the exam has no bearing on the outcome of the application." Results are standardised across the three sittings, so a later date gives no advantage. NLCS's exam falls on Thursday 3 December 2026, the Consortium's third date, so a girl applying to both should ask her current school early which of the three dates it is hosting.

The Consortium assessment has six components in a fixed order and 100 minutes of testing in all (20 + 10 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 25): Maths for 20 minutes, Non-Verbal Reasoning for 10, English for 20, Verbal Reasoning for 10, then, after a break of up to 30 minutes, Problem Solving for 15 and Creative Comprehension for 25. Maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning are adaptive. The Maths questions are based on the National Curriculum for Year 5, and the English passage is a piece of fiction specially written for the exam, with no extended writing required.

The Consortium publishes familiarisation materials on its website and recommends that every candidate looks at them; its FAQ adds that a girl "does not need special tuition or intensive practice for this assessment". For the separate papers some schools outside the Consortium use, 11+ past papers give children a clear sense of style and difficulty. Workbook practice has a ceiling, and what the Bond assessment papers do and do not cover explains why commercial workbooks are not a copy of a bespoke online assessment such as the Consortium's, which the Consortium describes as "almost entirely bespoke".

The South London Independents: Alleyn's, JAGS, Dulwich College and Others

No South London school is on the Consortium's list of members. The five schools below are not members either, and each publishes its own 2027-entry dates; our South London 11+ guide sets out four of them (Alleyn's, Dulwich College, JAGS and Streatham and Clapham High School) school by school, with the test each uses.

• Alleyn's School — co-educational. It says the ISEB Common Pre-test does not form part of its 11+ process, and its candidates sit written assessments in Reasoning, English and Maths.
• Dulwich College — boys at 11+. Its entrance examinations are on Friday 4 December 2026.
• James Allen's Girls' School (JAGS) — candidates are assessed at a Welcome Morning during the autumn term and sit the ISEB Common Pre-test between early November and 9 December.
• King's College School Wimbledon (KCS) — boys at 11+, tested in English, Mathematics and Verbal Reasoning on Saturday 5 December 2026 (morning).
• Streatham and Clapham High School — every applicant takes the ISEB assessment, no later than Monday 7 December 2026, and the school offers the option of sitting it there on Saturday 5 December 2026.

What these schools share is a season, not a paper: registration closes between Friday 30 October 2026 and Friday 13 November 2026, and Alleyn's examinations on Friday 8 January 2027 are the latest dated test among them. A family applying to these schools and to the Consortium therefore registers with each school separately and should check the Consortium's three dates against each school's own test date. The table below sets the seven schools on this page that are not Consortium members, the five above plus North London Collegiate School and Highgate School, side by side by registration date.

The ISEB Common Pre-Test: Why It Sits Outside the Consortium Process

The ISEB Common Pre-Test is a separate system from the Consortium assessment, not a stage within it. ISEB describes its Pre-Tests as "four multiple-choice, adaptive, online tests used by leading independent schools as part of the admissions process for Year 7, or delayed entry in Year 9". They cover English, mathematics, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning and, ISEB says, take 2 hours 15 minutes to complete.

Of the schools on this page, James Allen's Girls' School and Streatham and Clapham High School name the ISEB in their 2027 process, while Alleyn's says it "does not form part of the 11+ process". The Consortium's own assessment was designed with Quest Assessments, and the Consortium and member admissions pages read for this page describe that assessment without mentioning the ISEB. ISEB describes its Pre-Tests as a shared assessment whose results "can be accessed by all of the senior schools who require them", which is why a child sits them once.

ISEB says a child will most likely take the Pre-Tests once during Year 6 for Year 7 entry, in a testing session that runs from the autumn term to the spring term, with the date "as determined by the senior school". JAGS lists sittings between early November and 9 December; Streatham and Clapham High School requires the ISEB assessment no later than Monday 7 December 2026. ISEB names Eton and Harrow among the senior schools that use the Pre-Tests as a precursor to Year 9 entry (13+).

The Timeline From Registration to Offer

The 11+ admissions calendar for London independent schools is tightly structured, and the Consortium publishes one timetable for September 2027 entry; the member schools' own pages repeat its dates, each adding an interview date. For the Consortium, the sequence is:

1. By Friday 6 November 2026 — registration closes, and so does the deadline for written evidence supporting access arrangements. Each Consortium school asks the Head of the girl's current school for a reference separately.
2. Friday 27 November, Tuesday 1 December or Thursday 3 December 2026 — the 100-minute online assessment, sat once, at the girl's current school where it hosts or otherwise at a Consortium school she has applied to.
3. January 2027 — interviews on each school's own date, from Monday 4 January 2027 (Francis Holland, Regent's Park) to Wednesday 20 January 2027 (South Hampstead High School) among the schools that publish a date. At Godolphin and Latymer and South Hampstead High School, candidates are selected for interview from the assessment.
4. Friday 12 February 2027 — offers are sent out to arrive on that date.
5. Noon on Wednesday 3 March 2027 — the deadline to accept, 19 days after the offer date (16 days from 12 February to the end of that month, plus 3 days in March).

Families needing access arrangements should note the Consortium's Code of Practice, which says that for the Autumn 2026 testing series it will be guided by the 2025-26 JCQ regulations. It allows 25% extra time to a candidate identified by a professional as having a learning difficulty or particularly uneven learning profile who has two below average standardised scores of 84 or less, or one such score and one low average score (85-89), in each case relating to two different areas of speed of working. Extra time is granted on each section of the exam rather than as one block.

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How Schools Decide Offers After a Shared Paper

The Consortium shares one set of results with every school a girl is registered at, and each school then decides for itself. The Consortium's FAQ says: "If the school selects for interview, how they make their decision and how many candidates they invite to interview are matters at their discretion."

Who is interviewed differs between members. The Consortium names two schools that "will select for interview from the assessment": Godolphin and Latymer and South Hampstead High School. By their own accounts, six others interview every applicant: Channing (regardless of the assessment result), both Francis Holland schools, Notting Hill and Ealing High School, Queen's College and St Helen's. St Augustine's Priory says its process "involves an online entrance test and a face-to-face interview". The 11+ pages of the other four members (More House, Northwood College for Girls, Queen's Gate School and St Margaret's) do not say whether every applicant is interviewed, and the Consortium's FAQ says: "Some Consortium schools select for interview, and some do not." Two plus six plus one plus four makes the thirteen members.

Two members describe the weighting in their own words. Channing says its policy “is to offer places on the basis of the whole picture created by the examination result, the interview performance and the school reference”, and More House says it looks “beyond exam results” and places “as much emphasis on your daughter’s interview and reference from her current school”.

On preparation, the Consortium is blunt about the interview: “We actively discourage preparation for the interview. Our interviewers can easily identify the candidate who has been coached for this part of the process.” The assessment is a different matter, because the Consortium publishes familiarisation materials for it on its website.

For a family applying to several members, the structure is simple: one assessment, one result seen by each school, then a separate reference, interview and offer from each. A family adding schools outside the Consortium faces a longer list, because each of those schools runs its own process: NLCS's exam on Thursday 3 December 2026 and Alleyn's on Friday 8 January 2027 sit alongside the Consortium's three dates.

For school-specific preparation, the school-specific 11+ preparation guides from Leading Tuition cover individual schools, including Channing School 11+ preparation, Francis Holland School 11+ preparation and South Hampstead High School 11+. Girls sitting from abroad should read London independent school 11+ from overseas; the Consortium's FAQ says an overseas applicant who would rather sit the exam overseas should contact the admissions team at one of her Consortium schools.

Reviewed October 2026: membership, assessment dates, interview policies and the offer timetable checked against the London 11+ Consortium's website and each member school's admissions page; the dates of schools outside the Consortium checked against their own admissions pages and ISEB's family information.

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Related Resources

For school-specific strategies and preparation advice, visit our school-specific 11+ preparation guides. To practise with exam-style materials, explore our 11+ past papers; the Consortium's own familiarisation materials are on its website.