Boarding schools for girls at sixth form...advice please!

[Totallycluelessmum]

We are thinking about boarding school for our DD at sixth form. She is in an academic day school at the moment and particularly loves drama and music. We thought a boys school that admits girls at 6th form may make life easier socially at the beginning.
We'd wondered about Westminster, Charterhouse or maybe Shrewsbury or I'm sure many others I've missed??
We've heard that some schools empty from Sat pm-Sun night as kids go home, we live in Yorkshire and could easily travel to London or further for shows/exeats etc but every Sat/ Sun to Godalming etc may get annoying!
Any advice welcome on an academic school with good drama.
Thanks :)

This is an old thread, so you may be better starting your own, stating all your specific requirements, I'm sure you'll get lots of experts along soon :)

However I'll say what little I know anyway! I think you've got plenty of time, we looked around schools in the Summer term towards the end of year 10. The entrance exams were all in the Autumn of year 11. None of them seemed to need an earlier registration although we had expressed an interest and asked for prospectuses etc before that, so I suppose DD was on a list somewhere!

DD has started at Rugby and is incredibly happy and seems to be doing well, so far so good. However it is mixed, so not right for your DD.