What percentage pass the 11+?

What it covers

Four 11+ areas that publish how many children sat and passed: Buckinghamshire (2023 to 2026 entry), Kent (2024 to 2026 entry), Bexley (2025 and 2026 entry) and Essex CSSE (2024 and 2025 entry). Each keeps its own definition of passing.

Sources

• The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (statistics prepared by Buckinghamshire Council): Secondary Transfer Test scores by birth month, 2023 entry, every pupil score, by birth month. Official.
• The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (statistics prepared by Buckinghamshire Council): Secondary Transfer Test scores by birth month, 2024 entry, every pupil score, by birth month. Official.
• The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (statistics prepared by Buckinghamshire Council): Secondary Transfer Test scores by birth month, 2025 entry, every pupil score, by birth month. Official.
• The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (statistics prepared by Buckinghamshire Council): Qualifiers by location, 2023 entry (final), Total and Buckinghamshire rows. Official.
• The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (statistics prepared by Buckinghamshire Council): Qualifiers by location, 2024 entry (final), Total and Buckinghamshire rows. Official.
• The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (statistics prepared by Buckinghamshire Council): Qualifiers by location, 2025 entry (final), Total and Buckinghamshire rows. Official.
• The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (statistics prepared by Buckinghamshire Council): Qualifiers by location, 2026 entry (spring), Total and Buckinghamshire rows. Official.
• Kent County Council: Kent Test results: how the 2025 test was decided, Scores needed for a grammar school assessment. Official.
• Kent County Council: Pupils to find out their Kent Test results today (2025 test). Official.
• Kent County Council: Pupils find out their Kent Test results today (2024 test). Official.
• Kent County Council: Council document with the 2023 Kent Test results. Official.
• London Borough of Bexley: Before applying online for a secondary school: distance from school of offered places on National Offer Day, each school's table, 2022 to 2026 columns. Official.
• London Borough of Bexley: Bexley selection tests: about the test. Official.
• London Borough of Bexley (slides hosted by Longlands Primary School): Bexley selection test information evening slides, 2026 entry, slide 8. Official document, public copy.
• CSSE: 2024 Entry Standardisation Report (October 2023), Mean, standard deviation and age coefficient for each paper. Official.
• CSSE: 2025 Entry Standardisation Report, Mean, standard deviation and age coefficient for each paper. Official.
• CSSE: 2026 Entry Standardisation Report, Mean, standard deviation and age coefficient for each paper. Official.
• CSSE: Standardised scores from 2019 entry to 2024 entry, 2024 sheet. Official.
• CSSE: Standardised scores for 2025 entry, every candidate row. Official.
• CSSE: Standardised scores for 2026 entry, every candidate row; the file's own header says 2025Entry, but its name and the September 2025 test identify 2026 entry. Official.
• CSSE: Historical guidance sheet for 2026 entry (scores of last selective place offered, 1 March 2025), Footnote: no offer is made below a total standardised score of 303. Official.
• CSSE: Historical guidance sheet for 2025 entry, Footnote: no offer is made below a total standardised score of 303. Official.
• CSSE: CSSE information guide for 2027 entry, Page 5: key dates. Official.
• CSSE: Total number of CSSE 11+ examination candidates, 2010 to 2025 entry. Official.

Method

1. Buckinghamshire: children who qualified, by scoring 121 or more or after a selection review, out of all who sat. The 2026-entry figures are the council's spring report.
2. Kent: Kent-resident children assessed suitable for grammar school, by score or headteacher panel, out of Kent-resident children who sat. Children from outside Kent also sit, but their results are not split out in these announcements.
3. Bexley: children found selective, out of all who sat.
4. Essex CSSE: we count the published scores of 303 or more, the lowest score any CSSE school offers a place to, out of all published scores. We do this only for 2024 and 2025 entry, the years CSSE's guidance sheets state the 303 minimum.

Uncertainty and limits

• The four areas define passing differently, so compare years within an area, not areas with each other.
• Kent's announcements do not split automatic passes from headteacher assessments.
• For Essex, 303 is a floor, not a qualifying score: at most schools the last place went higher, so the share who could realistically get a place is smaller.
• Bucks figures change a little between the provisional, spring and final reports; we use the latest one for each year.

Dates and versions

• Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test scores and qualifiers, 2023 to 2026 entry: data version 2026-09-26.1, checked 26 September 2026 (historical).
• Kent Test sitters and grammar assessments, 2023 to 2025 tests: data version 2026-09-26.1, checked 26 September 2026 (historical).
• Bexley grammar schools: distance of the furthest offer, 2022 to 2026 entry: data version 2026-09-26.1, checked 26 September 2026 (historical).
• CSSE standardisation formula and published scores, 2024 to 2026 entry: data version 2026-09-26.1, checked 26 September 2026 (historical).
• Page last changed 26 September 2026.

What the answer means

The answer says what share of children who sat that area's test reached its pass standard in each year. It is not a chance of a grammar place. Places follow each school's rules, and most areas have far fewer places than qualified children.