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Primary Education

Aylesbury Town hosts a mixture of 16 infant, first, junior and combined schools which together provide education up until the age of 11 years. Each has its own catchment area. For more information on primary establishments and their catchment areas visit www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/content/index.

Secondary Education

Buckinghamshire supports a selective secondary education system. Within the Town boundaries are three grammar schools - Aylesbury High School (AHS), (girls only), Aylesbury Grammar School (AGS), (boys only) and Sir Henry Floyd (co-educational). Additionally Aylesbury has three non-selective co-educational secondary schools: the Grange; Quarrenden and Stoke Mandeville.

Founded in 1598 by Sir Henry Lee, Aylesbury Grammar School celebrated 100 years on the current site in Walton Road in 2007. It was previously a mixed sex school but then separated after a fire which destroyed part of the buildings. Aylesbury Grammar educates 1,250 male pupils. As a selective state school, its entry requirements are dictated by competitive examination at the age of 10-11. The School has Primary College status in Science, and Secondary College status in Languages and in Maths & Computing.

AGS takes pupils from age 11, in year 7, to age 18, in year 13 (Upper VI). Its largest intake is in Year 7 followed by Year 12 (Lower VI). On completing GCSEs, most pupils stay on to sixth form to complete their A-levels.

The Sir Henry Floyd is a Co-Educational Grammar School with just over a thousand students close to the Town Centre of Aylesbury. It has been a Performing Arts College for a number of years. It has recently been designated a High Performing Specialist School and in addition has been invited to develop a science specialism. Pupils are accepted from age 11, in year 7, to age 18, in year 13 (Upper VI). Largest intake is in Year 7 followed by Year 12 (Lower VI). On completing GCSEs, most pupils stay on to sixth form to complete their A-levels.

Aylesbury High School (AHS) was founded in 1959, when the previously co-educational Grammar School became boys-only. The two schools remain on adjacent sites. Aylesbury High takes about 1,260 girls. Entry is by competitive examination. In September 2001 the High was awarded specialist status in Languages. Girls are admitted from age 11, in year 7, to age 18, in year 13 (Upper VI). The School has its largest intake at Year 7 followed by around 190 students into Year 12 (Lower VI). Many pupils who complete their GCSEs in year 11 go on to study A-levels at the School.

The Grange School is a mixed secondary school with approximately 1,400. pupils aged 11 -19 years At the time of writing the School is submitting an application for specialist status in Business and Enterprise.

Quarrendon School, formerly Quarrendon County Secondary and later Quarrendon Upper, is a mixed sex and non-selective Community School which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The School has approximately 800 pupils. The School's catchment area comprises parts of north Aylesbury, including Quarrendon, Elmhurst, Watermead, Whitchurch, Oving and Pitchcott. It also includes both the Berryfields and Weedon Hill developments.

There are plans to close Quarrenden at its present location and re-open as an ‘Academy’ style school on a new site, custom built for the needs of the community as part of the Berryfields Major Development Area.

Academies are publicly funded independent local schools that provide a first class free education. They are all-ability schools established by sponsors from business, faith or voluntary groups working with partners from the local community. Academies provide a teaching and learning environment that is in line with the best in the maintained sector and offer a broad and balanced curriculum to pupils of all abilities, focusing on one of more subject specialisms.