Enter your postcode to see if your home is inside the 10 km Priority Area.
What the school's own documents say, year by year. We compared the determined policies for 2026 and 2027 entry on 26 September 2026.
| Entry year | What the school says |
|---|---|
| Since the Priority Area was introduced | Places have only been offered to boys living within 10 km of the school. It was previously called the Inner Priority Area. The FAQ does not give the year it began. Source |
| 2025 entry onwards | Up to 10% of places for sport (5%) or music (5%) aptitude, with earlier registration deadlines. The 2027 policy reserves up to 18 places (9 sport, 9 music) for Priority Area boys at or above the 450th ranked Combined Score. Source |
| 2026 entry to 2027 entry | The 10 km Priority Area, the 50% English and 50% maths Combined Score (maths from Stage One and Stage Two in the ratio 2:3), the 450th-rank threshold for priority groups and the 18 reserved aptitude places read the same in both determined policies. The registration deadline moved from noon on 3 September 2025 to noon on 2 September 2026. Source |
| 2028 entry | No determined policy for 2028 entry was published when we checked. Do not assume the 2027 rules carry over. Source |
A result here is an estimate from your postcode's centre point. Only Kingston Schools Admissions' measurement from your home's address point decides.
Every boy who lives less than 10 km from Tiffin School, in a straight line, lives in the Priority Area. It is what most parents mean by the Tiffin Boys catchment area. There is no list of postcodes and no drawn boundary: the council measures each home.
Source: Tiffin School admissions policy, entry September 2027No. It decides the order, not the outcome. Boys who sat Stage Two are ranked by Combined Score, and Priority Area boys come before everyone else. For 2026 entry, 665 boys sat Stage Two and 186 places were offered on 1 March, every one to a Priority Area boy.
Source: Tiffin School pattern of admissions 2024 to 2026Kingston Schools Admissions measures a straight line from the Ordnance Survey address point of your home to the Queen Elizabeth Road pedestrian gate. The school publishes its grid reference as 518588, 169434. This checker measures from the centre of your postcode, so it calls anything within 250 m of the line too close to call.
Source: Tiffin School admissions FAQ, entry September 2027Yes, but they are ranked after every Priority Area boy, and no place has gone to a boy outside the area since it was introduced in September 2019. The school asks families outside it to think carefully before registering.
Source: Tiffin School admissions policy, entry September 2027The address where your son lives permanently when you submit your council application, by the 31 October 2026 deadline for 2027 entry. Your council checks it and will ask for evidence. If you move after that date, speak to your council, not the school.
Source: Tiffin School admissions FAQ, entry September 2027Not yet. The current policy covers September 2027 entry, for boys born from 1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016, and says its next review is in spring 2027. Until then the 2027 rules are the best guide, and they can change.
Source: Tiffin School admissions policy, entry September 2027| Entry | Sat Stage One | Sat Stage Two | Offered on 1 March | Lowest score offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1866 | 665 | 186 | 100 |
| 2025 | 1675 | 653 | 186 | 100 |
| 2024 | 1654 | 666 | 186 | 104 |
All places in these three years went to boys living inside the 10 km Priority Area. The lowest score is the Combined Score of the last boy offered a place on 1 March. Source: Tiffin School pattern of admissions 2024 to 2026
Last checked 25 September 2026. If the school changes its policy, the school's own documents win.