Essex grammar school cut-off scores
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| School | Inside priority area | Outside |
|---|---|---|
| 355 | 372 | |
| 322 | 333 | |
| 343 | Same figure | |
| 305 | 342 | |
| 303 | 321 | |
| 309 | 351 | |
| 306 | 345 | |
| 304 | Not given | |
| Not given | Not given | |
| 303 | Not given |
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The last place at King Edward VI Grammar School on 1 March 2025 went at 355 inside its priority area and 372 outside it.
Questions people ask
What was the KEGS cut-off score for 2025?
The last place at King Edward VI Grammar School on 1 March 2025 went at 355 inside its priority area and 372 outside it. From 2021 to 2025 the outside figure moved between 366 and 376.
What is the CSSE pass mark?
CSSE says no offer is made to a child scoring under 303. Some schools filled their places inside the priority area at or near 303; others, like Westcliff High School for Boys outside its priority area (351 in 2025), needed far more.
Why did the Colchester County High School for Girls cut-off change in 2025?
The school introduced a priority area for 2025 entry. Its last places went at 322 inside and 333 outside, where before there was one figure (330 for 2024 entry). The two are different categories, so they are not compared as a trend.
Does Colchester Royal Grammar School have a priority area?
Not in these figures: CSSE prints one figure for CRGS, which was 343 for 2025 entry.
When are new cut-off scores published?
CSSE publishes a historical guidance sheet each autumn for the last round of offers. The 2025-entry figures were published in October 2025.
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What it does
The lowest CSSE score offered a place at each Essex grammar school on National Offer Day, by priority area, for 2021 to 2025 entry.
The ten schools in the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex (CSSE): the score of the last selective place offered on National Offer Day (1 March), by priority area, for 2021 to 2025 entry, as printed on CSSE's historical guidance sheets.
Method
- We copy each figure from CSSE's guidance sheets: the 2025-entry sheet (offers made on 1 March 2025), the 2024-entry sheet and the combined 2019 to 2024 sheets. Each figure keeps its school, priority area and year.
- If you give a score, we subtract each year's last place from it. Only the 2025-entry sheet says its figures are rounded to the nearest whole number, so only that year can say 'on the line' for a score within half a point.
- Figures from different priority areas are never mixed. Colchester County High School for Girls brought in a priority area for 2025 entry, so its single earlier figure is shown as its own series.
- The scenario for the next year is the middle of the last three years, plus or minus the biggest of: the spread of those three years, how far this method missed for that school before, and half a point.
Published figures
Every CSSE last-place score, 2021 to 2025 entry
The score of the last selective place offered on National Offer Day, by school and priority area, as printed by CSSE. A blank means no figure was printed for that category and year.
| School and area | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King Edward VI Grammar School (inside) | 345 | 345 | 347 | 340 | 355 |
| King Edward VI Grammar School (outside) | 375 | 366 | 366 | 376 | 372 |
| Colchester County High School for Girls (inside) | 322 | ||||
| Colchester County High School for Girls (outside) | 333 | ||||
| Colchester County High School for Girls (one figure) | 332 | 328 | 333 | 330 | |
| Colchester Royal Grammar School (one figure) | 342 | 338 | 340 | 337 | 343 |
| Southend High School for Boys (inside) | 303 | 303 | 303 | 303 | 305 |
| Southend High School for Boys (outside) | 329 | 337 | 342 | 336 | 342 |
| Southend High School for Girls (inside) | 303 | 303 | 303 | 304 | 303 |
| Southend High School for Girls (outside) | 318 | 311 | 324 | 327 | 321 |
| Westcliff High School for Boys (inside) | 303 | 303 | 303 | 303 | 309 |
| Westcliff High School for Boys (outside) | 353 | 349 | 349 | 355 | 351 |
| Westcliff High School for Girls (inside) | 303 | 303 | 303 | 303 | 306 |
| Westcliff High School for Girls (outside) | 344 | 327 | 342 | 347 | 345 |
| Shoeburyness High School (selective places) (inside) | 303 | 303 | 305 | 304 | 304 |
| Shoeburyness High School (selective places) (outside) | 303 | 303 | |||
| St Bernard's High School (selective places) (inside) | 303 | 303 | 303 | 307 | |
| St Thomas More High School (selective places) (inside) | 303 | 303 | 303 |