11+ Bursaries
Applications for 2027 entry are open until Wednesday 4 November 2026
If you wish to apply for a 11+ bursary, please make this clear on your application form. If your total family income is less than £45,000, we will reduce the size of the application fee from £210 to £30, if you can’t afford the fee please let us know.
Once we’ve received your application, we’ll send you a financial assessment form with guidance on how to complete it. You will need to send us the completed form by the application deadline and any additional documents by early December to be considered for a bursary.
Your personal information will remain strictly confidential and will not affect the outcome of your child’s academic assessments, which will take place in December. All candidates are required to take the assessment so we can make sure they’ll be able to cope with the fast-paced learning at Highgate.
If your child is invited to the second round assessment in January, you will be asked to attend an online meeting with a representative from Bursary Assessment Associates, an independent company who help us assess bursary candidates. They will treat your information in total confidence and will help to guide you through the process. You can read more about them here:
Information for parents | Bursary Assessment Associates
In your meeting, the BAA representative will go through your completed financial assessment form, you can ask them questions and explain anything that might be unclear from your form. They will then make a recommendation to us regarding your eligibility for a bursary award.
If your child is successful in the second round assessments, we will then make a final decision on the size of the bursary based on BAA’s recommendation, the number of candidates applying and the amount of funding we have available. We will write to you with an offer of a place, and with information on the size of the bursary by the end of January.
Please click here to read further information about 11+ Admissions.
- Keyworker Bursary
Each year, we allocate one full-fee equivalent bursary for a child of parents/carers who are keyworkers living in the local area.
We define a keyworker as someone who is employed by the public sector, in a frontline role, delivering an essential public service. Examples of such roles include: clinical NHS staff (other than doctors and dentists), teachers in schools and in further education and sixth form colleges, police officers and community support officers, prison officers, probation service staff, firefighters, ambulance service crew and members of the armed forces.
Whilst this bursary is aimed at families where both parents/carers are key workers, in a situation where only one is employed in such a role, careful consideration will be given to the circumstances/employment of the second parent/carer in deciding whether this specific bursary should apply.
- How much might we receive?
We realise that it is helpful to estimate the size of the bursary support that may be awarded to your child. BAA judge each application carefully, looking at several factors such as:
- Sources of income
- Outgoings
- Assets
- Liabilities
- The value and council tax band of the family home
- Size of the family
As a rough guide, if your total family income is less than £45,000 and if you don’t have significant assets (e.g. savings), then your child could be entitled to 100% funding of school fees, as well as additional help with uniforms, IT or educational trips. If your total family income is between £45,000 and £107,000 then you may be eligible for a partial bursary.
Our Keyworker bursaries provide an enhanced level of support over a wider range of total family income: for these bursaries, you can consider applying if your total family income is up to £125,000.
These are for guidance only and BAA will assess your personal situation, if you think you may be eligible then please get in touch.