Sixth Form

Admission to Year 12 (Sixth Form) - September 2025

Please email Pip Drummond at DrummondP@ripongrammar.com to book a boarding tour, we still have a small number of sixth form boarding places available.

ONLINE OPEN DAY: Please click here to visit our Online Open Day, which provides lots of information on everything from A-level courses to all the activities and opportunities that make being a sixth former at Ripon Grammar School such an enriching experience.

Each year Ripon Grammar School typically admits 50+ students into the Sixth Form from other schools. Offers are made, in March, on the basis of academic potential, based on a student's school reports and their predicted GCSE grades.

1. COURSE GUIDE 2024-2025

Applications for Sixth Form places are made directly to Ripon Grammar School. Further information about the A Level courses offered is available in our Course Guide 2024 - 2025. Please follow these links to additional information about the academic departments

2. OPTION BLOCKS 2024

You will follow a programme of 3 A Level subjects and the ‘Plus One Programme’, or AS Maths, as detailed in the Course Guide. You must choose one subject from each of the columns in the Option Blocks. Please click here to view the subject options.

You must select

1.  3 A Level subjects and the 'Plus One Programme' or AS Mathematics (this is the Mathematics options in the columns below, studied for one year).

or

2.  4 A Levels (this will be subject to approval).

3. SIXTH FORM ONLINE APPLICATION FORMS

All applicants, for day or boarding, must complete the online  'Application to Sixth Form'. Those students applying for a boarding place must also complete the online 'Sixth Form Suitability for Boarding Form'.

All students wishing to join our Sixth Form in September 2025 are required to achieve a minimum of six grade 6s at GCSE, and at least a grade 6 in the subjects they intend to study. Most successful external applicants will be predicted higher, and subsequently achieve grades 9 - 7 (or equivalent A*-B) in their GCSE subjects.

Applications close on Monday 3 February 2025. Offers, for day and boarding, are made in mid-March.

Sixth Form Application Form September 2025

Sixth Form Boarding Suitability Form September 2025

Our Online Open Day can be viewed here

BOARDING PLACES

A £50 non-refundable boarding registration fee is required before the application is processed, along with a copy of the applicants passport, once the application form has been received we will email you with the electronic bank details and to request the passport details.

Following our selection process, any potential boarders who are shortlisted for a place will be invited to an online interview as part of the 'suitability for boarding' process.

All boarders pay a bond of £1750 on the acceptance of a place, which is refundable at the end of their academic education (not applicable to current RGS boarders). This is not refundable if you accept the offer and then withdraw prior to results day OR have a confirmed offer from us following results day and decline the place. In the event of a student not achieving the entry requirements, the offer of a place may be withdrawn by the school and the bond would be refunded.

A boarding place cannot be converted into a day place.

INDUCTION

We will hold an induction afternoon in June for those students who have been offered a place in our sixth form.

SCHOOL TRANSPORT

Please click here for information about school bus routes.