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Admissions Procedure

Relationships are important at Bedales – among students and between students and staff – so we look for applicants who will benefit from, and contribute to, our particular mix of informality and respect for the individual. As our students grow older, they take on more responsibility for organising their life and learning. This can be demanding, when there are so many choices to be made of academic and other activities, so we look also for the intellectual capacity, determination and enthusiasm that allow a student to make the most of these choices. All these characteristics are personal and individual: they have nothing to do with race, creed or background.

Although one in eight of our students have a brother or sister in the school, many others have siblings elsewhere, because Bedales is right for one child but not the other. Bedales does not adhere to any religious denomination, but we can arrange for students to follow their own religious observances. Most of our families are based in London or the south-east of the UK. About ten percent work or live overseas. In the senior school, two thirds of the students are boarders, even though a number live locally.

From long experience, it is best for students to join Dunhurst or Bedales in the September following their eighth, eleventh, or thirteenth birthday. However, we will consider applicants for other years if places are available.

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The Good Schools Guide (the original, straight-talking guide to good schools): read the Bedales entry

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