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Governors are committed to ensuring KEHS is as accessible to as wide a range of families as possible. It is an independent school receiving no direct public funding and is therefore run primarily through fees. However about a quarter of the girls in the school receive some form of bursary support to help pay the fees, with some families paying no fees at all. Governors do their best to ensure those girls who would flourish at this academic school can attend regardless of parental income.

 

These bursaries are means tested - that is, they are dependent on parental income. The scales applied are available from the school and are updated annually. The funds are provided largely by the King Edward Foundation but also by donations from former pupils. Parents complete an annual return detailing income and are asked to supply full supporting evidence. Forms are checked in considerable detail by the Foundation Office staff.

 

Although the Foundation contributes a great deal each year, more girls apply for bursary assistance than the scheme can support. Therefore bursaries are awarded to the girls who do best in the admissions examinations. Bursaries are awarded at 11+ and 16+.

 

Members of staff at the school and at the King Edward Foundation Office are always happy to explain the bursary scheme and help parents in completing the application form.

 

As well as paying all or part of the fees, the bursary scheme can often subsidise necessary educational visits out of school, lunches, travel and uniform.

 

Those girls awarded a means tested bursary are also eligible for a small music bursary for one year. Details of this are made available to girls once they have joined the school in the first year.

 

Because the governors are committed to the means tested bursary scheme, there is very little in the way of non-means tested scholarship money. However each year the equivalent of two full fee places are offered to the girls who come at the top of the admissions examination merit order. This can be combined with a bursary where the family income requires that. Because of the number of girls who usually do very well in the admissions examination, these two full fee places are usually divided into much smaller units and the school would be unlikely to even award as much as a 50% scholarship to an individual girl.

 

It is usual for those girls being considered for a bursary or scholarship to be invited to attend an interview as part of the selection process.