Bromley High School is a selective school offering an exceptional education to girls aged 4–18 years. Set in leafy parkland and benefitting from first-rate facilities, both Junior and Senior Schools provide a beautiful and buzzy environment where bright girls flourish.
The school is part of the GDST (Girls’ Day School Trust), the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK. Founded in 1883, Bromley High School was originally situated in the centre of Bromley. In 1981, it moved to Bickley to occupy modern purpose-built buildings set in 24 acres of leafy parkland.
In the classroom, each girl’s intellectual potential is challenged and developed by inspirational teachers whose concern for your daughter ranges infinitely beyond her performance in examinations: teachers who have a capacity to develop a love of learning, a spirit of enquiry and an independence of mind. Girls learn to collaborate and to compete, to be creative and intellectually curious, and their learning is underpinned by the school’s ethos of achievement for all and by the subject passion, enthusiasm and expertise of their teachers.
Results are consistently superb. 2024 GCSE results: 22% grade 9s, 46% A*, and 68% A*–A grades. 2024 A Level results: 56% of pupils achieved A* or A grade. The school is most proud of its consistently impressive Value Added results at GCSE and A Level which demonstrate the care taken to bring out the best in every girl.
However, outstanding success at Bromley High School is not purely academic. Bromley High girls are resilient and well-rounded young women participating with enthusiasm and commitment in Music, Drama, Sport, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and an overabundant range of activities – and where they have interest or talent or enthusiasm, it is nurtured so that they learn to excel. Sport is exceptional with recent leavers gaining sports scholarships to Princeton and Yale.
Pastoral care is thoughtful and developmental, actively encouraging girls to develop key attributes: Confidence, Courage, Composure, and Commitment. Every house takes on the responsibility of supporting its own charity and the school has a highly valued tradition of volunteering and charitable activity.
Bromley High School pupils are confident, cheerful, considerate and enthusiastic about the myriad of opportunities their school has to offer.
Pupil numbers. Senior School (ages 11–18): 610 (including the Sixth Form). Junior School (ages 4–11): 315.
The Junior School. Our two-form entry Junior School provides a stimulating and happy environment in which our pupils are encouraged to strive for excellence in all they do and to derive satisfaction from their achievements both great and small. From the earliest years we offer a broad curriculum which encourages, challenges and excites the young mind. Our aim is to foster a love of learning, develop independent thinking and promote a spirit of enquiry that leads to a depth of understanding. In our approach to teaching and learning we blend the traditional with progressive insights into learning styles and the particular needs of young girls as learners in a modern world. We teach the full range of the National Curriculum, including French, Spanish, German and also Latin, and accord sports and the creative arts a significant place in the timetable, while ensuring that the foundations of the core subjects are well established. Class lessons are differentiated and we offer extension and support where appropriate and specialist teaching, sometimes from Senior School staff, in a number of subjects.
Bromley High believes in preparing girls for the challenges beyond school and values the importance of a holistic approach. The school provides many varied opportunities within a vibrant co-curricular programme including sporting, musical, dramatic and other creative activities. We make the most of our beautiful school grounds to provide opportunities for outdoor learning, in which our Forest School is a vital part.
Forest School is a planned programme that takes place in a woodland environment with the aim of developing opportunities for the learner to encounter the beauty, joy, awe and wonder of the natural environment. The approach is ‘hands on’ and seeks to promote the holistic development of the unique child, including physical, spatial, linguistic, emotional and spiritual aspects. Self-confidence and independence are increased through freedom, time and space to learn. A safe and secure environment allows the girls to extend their learning beyond their comfort zone; to challenge their existing boundaries and ideas and to tackle investigations and tasks which in the classroom may not be possible. Collaboration and cooperation between the learners, their peers and the forest school leader is at the core of the Forest School programme. Social skills develop through risk-taking and an understanding of the consequences of your own actions, while self-awareness, self-regulation and empathy for others are also developed. Forest School enables children to be active participants in their own education and development.
In the delivery of our curriculum we are well served by outstanding facilities which, in addition to comprehensively equipped classrooms, include a music wing, a library, ICT suite, a science room, an art and technology room, a sensory garden and outdoor ‘classrooms’. Our new multi-million pound extension and refurbishment of the Junior School offers specialist teaching spaces which reflect the importance we place on providing the best possible learning environment, alongside our exceptional teaching. The girls are all enjoying our new Science Lab, Digital Hub and light-filled Art Studio and Design and Food Technology room, which look onto fields and woodland. We share many other facilities with the Senior School including a swimming pool, gymnasium, sports hall, tennis courts and an all-weather pitch.
The Senior School. Bromley High combines a tradition of scholarship with an innovative curriculum and expansive co-curricular provision. In the classroom, an emphasis on independent learning and growth mindset is designed to inculcate a spirit of enquiry, an independence of mind and a love of learning. Girls participate with enthusiasm and commitment in Music, Drama, Sport and an overabundant range of activities – and where they have interest or talent or enthusiasm, it is nurtured so that they learn to excel.
Consistent investment has developed new science facilities, library, sixth form centre, drama studio, and specialist teaching rooms for the creative arts enabling departments to have their own dedicated spaces for teaching and extracurricular activities. Visual and creative arts are highly valued with Photography, Drama and Dance offered to A level and students regularly progressing to study at Central St Martin’s and other prestigious Arts Foundation courses and to Ballet Schools.
Academic. Languages, both ancient and modern, are a particular strength, with French, German and Spanish offered from Year 7. Latin and Classics are both popular A Level choices, with Ancient Greek offered as an optional extra GCSE. As a girls’ school, Bromley High lays great emphasis on STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Teaching rooms are equipped with Smart Boards and all have Wi-Fi and digital projector facilities which allow pupils to use iPads, Chrome Books, or their own mobile computer devices. Teachers are encouraged to enrich the curriculum and teach lively, challenging lessons. Myriad trips and activities, including music tours abroad from Year 7, and Lower School trips to Florence, Venice and Iceland. The modern foreign languages department has links with France, Germany and Spain and arranges exchanges, visits and work experience placements.
Girls study 10 GCSE subjects including Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English and English Literature and a Modern Language. Three further options are chosen from French, Spanish and German, Latin and Classical Civilisation; Computer Science, Music, Art, Photography, Drama, Dance, Design Technology, Economics, Geography, History, Physical Education.
Sport. Sports facilities on the school’s 25-acre site are superb, including a large, well-equipped Sports Hall, a new fitness suite, a gymnasium, a 400-metre athletics track, two grass hockey pitches, a fine indoor heated swimming pool, and floodlit AstroTurf pitches and courts. Sport is both integral to the curriculum and an important part of the extracurricular life of the school. The school is proud of its tradition of producing national-level athletes and swimmers, and a number of girls who play county-level hockey, netball, swimming, tennis and athletics.
Sixth Form. The Sixth Form Centre provides a bright, modern setting for traditional scholarship. Students select from a broad range of A Levels supplemented by Extended Project, AS Thinking Skills and electives, such as Young Enterprise, Magazine Editing, Fashion, etc. Careers education is supported by the extensive GDST network of more than 70,000 alumnae. Sixth Formers benefit from GDST-wide initiatives, such as leadership and Oxbridge conferences and residential course on topics such as Engineering and Environmental Sustainability.
Extracurricular activities. A great emphasis is put on an enthusiastic involvement in music, art, sport and drama. The annual Dance production is a significant event in the school calendar, and in recent years the school has staged concerts in major London venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Southwark Cathedral and The Swiss Church.
Girls contribute to local, national and international charities and to community service. Almost all girls participate in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme in Year 10, with some continuing to completion of Gold Award in Sixth Form. The Eco Society promotes a keen interest in environmental issues. There are regular exchanges to France, Germany and Spain as well as Geography and Biology field trips as far as Iceland. Annual World Challenge expeditions have recently visited Madagascar, Mongolia and Costa Rica. The Years 6 and 7 Music Tours have recently visited Paris, Brussels, Normandy and Bruges, with the Senior Music Tour performing in Berlin, Prague, New York and Los Angeles. It is the first all-girls senior school in the world to have all Steinway status and musicians benefit from a Musician-in-Residence.
Fees per term (2024-2025). Senior School: £7,369, Junior School: £5,942.
Fees cover tuition, stationery, textbooks and scientific and games materials as well as entry fees for GCSE and GCE Advanced Level examinations. Extra tuition in Music and Speech and Drama is available at recognised rates.
Bursaries. Bursaries are means-tested and provide, for successful applicants, assistance with fees to enable bright girls to benefit from a GDST education. For those receiving full remission of fees, the award may include uniform and trips allowances.
Scholarships. There are Academic, Art, Music and Sport scholarships for the most successful candidates in the assessments at 11+ and for entry into the Sixth Form.
Admission and entrance examination. Admission into the school is at 4+ (Reception) and 7+ (Year 3) by assessment and testing. Pupils from the Junior School progress automatically to the Senior School but external applicants, or those wishing to be considered for scholarship or bursary, are assessed at 11+. The examination tests verbal and non-verbal skills, as well as creative writing. Entry to the Sixth Form is dependent on interview and school reference, including predicted grades and is contingent on results at GCSE.
Charitable status. Bromley High School is part of The Girls’ Day School Trust, which is a Registered Charity, number 306983.