Process
Admission to the school is selective and is based, as appropriate, on previous school records, academic testing, a personal interview with the applicant and his/her family and availability of places.
Admission tests and interviews for all grades are designed to ascertain that the applicant has the skills in mathematics and in both languages of instruction to allow him/her to cope with the demands of following the ABS curriculum and participating fully in the life of the school.
The school reserves the right to contact an applicant’s previous school(s) and request confidential references. Testing and interviews are the governing factors for admission from Grade 1.
In cases where the number of applications exceeds the places available at a given grade level, applicants are placed on a waiting list in order of date of application, with priority given, as indicated below. The Principal’s decision is final in all matters pertaining to admissions. In accepting students the school depends on student admission priorities, set by its Boards of Trustees.
All candidates for admission to the School must meet the stipulated academic criteria and are placed on the waiting list in order of merit.
Procedure
- Parents with children on the waiting list are contacted early in January / February each year and informed of the date for the testing of their child.
- Testing for Grade 1 and the KG is by interview rather than written examination.
- Where places are available additional testing takes place throughout the summer to consider late applications.
- Tests are set by the appropriate academic section of the school.
- Tests are administered by the Registrar and/or Head of School, under examination conditions.
- Tests are graded by teachers of the appropriate grade.
- A committee comprising the Principal, Vice Principal and Head of School reviews the applications in the light of test results.
- Where the committee feels it appropriate an applicant may be retested at a later date.