Waldegrave Admission criteria

[ES9077]

Hi,
Can anyone please help with admission criteria for Waldegrave school in Twickenham? Is there an entrance exam to get into it? And will it fall into the catchment area for Houses near Hampton infant school? Any advise/ help will be appreciated. Thanks

https://waldegrave.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/document/2.0-Oversubscription-Criteria-2022-23-Yr-7-.pdf?ts=1622764797

No exam. Catchment area maps are here

https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/16462/waldegraveschoollcatchmentfulllextentoff_areas.pdf

The area around hampton infants would fall into area a. However, furthest distance this year in A was 1.5km, which wouldn't get as far as hampton infants.

ES9077, in case it helps, it's a legal requirement for every school to publish it's admissions criteria on its website, so you should have no trouble finding them. All schools in Richmond Borough also put information on the admissions page of their websites to show how places were distributed on National Offer Day in the previous 3 years, so you should be able to see how many distance places there were in each category (as well as the actual final distance, which the previous poster mentioned). But bear in mind that this data does change between National Offer Day and September. More places become available because some families give up their Waldegrave offer to go private or to higher preference schools. Sometimes Waldegrave places do stretch into Hampton Hill, but I haven't heard of anyone living near Hampton Infants getting a distance place recently. If you've seen some uniforms in the area, they may have moved to Hampton after their eldest child got a place, then got younger sisters in with sibling priority.

Thank you for your replies
We are planning to move into the area near Hampton infant school. I think the primary schools are decent in the area but it’s the secondary schools which are more of an issue. Apart from private schools, the only other state school is the Turing school in Teddington??! Not sure how feasible the commute will be. But defo get more for your money in that area.

Your nearest local secondary school will be Hampton High which is rated Good by Ofsted and is popular. It's oversubscribed but you should be fine from that location. You may be able to get into Turing House too but check out its admissions policy because distance is measured to a nodal admissions point rather than to the school itself. It is moving from Teddington to a permanent site in Whitton soon, but there is a bus from Hampton - the 111. See here: www.turinghouseschool.org.uk/site.php.

If you're a churchgoer then there are faith school options nearby too.

Depending on where you move to in Teddington, then Grey Court is easily accessible via footbridge and we have been very impressed with both academics and extra-curricular in the 3 yrs my DD has been there.