About The Arnold Foundation
The Arnold Foundation enables Rugby School to offer fully funded places to talented and deserving young people with the most to gain from Rugby School, and whose families could not otherwise consider a boarding school education.
The Arnold Foundation Award provides fully-funded boarding places, and we currently have 30 Arnold Foundation students at Rugby School.
We welcome applications from students, parents, guardians and partner organisations. You will find details on how to apply at each year of entry, below.
If you would like to find out more about the application process, contact Martin Jones, Admissions Officer via email or on 01788 556267.
13+ Boarding (Year 9)
The application process begins in the June before the year of entry when children are nominated and are encouraged to complete and return our General Registration Form.
Application forms are expected to be submitted by the September and a visit arranged by the October. Candidates will then be invited to return in the November to sit our entrance tests in English and Maths.
Those children being taken forward are invited for final, formal interviews in the following January with senior members of the Admissions team and the Senior Arnold Foundation Tutor. Parents of these children will need to complete a Confidential Statement of Financial Circumstances form and return it to the Bursary before the final interviews take place.
16+ Boarding (Year 12)
The application process begins in the June before the year of entry when children are nominated and encouraged to complete and return our General Registration Form.
Application forms are expected to be submitted by the September and potential candidates should arrange to visit Rugby School on either of the two open days (June or September) or by personal visit before the October of Year 11.
Parents of candidates will also need to complete a Confidential Statement of Financial Circumstances form and return it to the Bursary before this closing date. Candidates sit entrance examinations and attend interviews in November at Rugby School. In exceptional circumstances we can make arrangements for children to sit entrance tests either at their current school or at an agreed testing site.
Those children being taken forward are invited for final, formal interviews in the following January with senior members of the Admissions team and the Senior Arnold Foundation Tutor. Entry to our sixth form also requires all applicants to pass our minimum entry qualification at GCSE which will be at least three at grade 7 and another three at grade 6 or above (including English and Maths and the subjects to be studied at A Level or for the International Baccalaureate Diploma).
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