Entry and Education
The Good Schools Guide called Downe House:
| “ | A green and spacious school which leads its pupils into independence as they move round the campus and makes sure they experience life outside it. | ” |
Downe House educates girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen, taking them from the last years of junior school through to the sixth form and Pre-U. Girls can join the school at the ages of eleven, twelve, or thirteen, on leaving a primary or prep school, or at sixteen after completing GCSEs.
The school is selective, with most entrants needing to pass the Common Entrance Examination.
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