Incredible Academics

At Truro High we want to give your daughter the best start in life and when it comes to education, the evidence is pretty clear – girls do better at single-sex schools.

Students who attend girls’ schools tend to achieve a disproportionately large share of the top grades. On average, they outperform students in co-ed schools, at both KS4 and KS5, and higher attainment can be seen when looking at all subjects as a whole, as well as for Maths and English separately.*

Girls in girls’ schools are 2.5 times as likely to take Further Maths and Physics – compared to girls in other schools. The uptake of other sciences is also higher with Biology 40% higher, Chemistry 77% higher and Computer Science 72% higher in girls’ schools compared to girls in other schools.*

In 2021, the school added to its reputation as a national leader in girls’ STEM education with Maths, Biology and Chemistry the most popular subjects taken at A level and 79% of all those passes at grades A*/A.

At Truro High our small class sizes allow us to provide truly bespoke development for your daughter’s skills, exceptional academic support and first class teaching in focussed classes that enable girls to follow their curiosity way beyond the syllabus. It is this perfect combination that means our students leave with offers to the world’s top universities and results that mean we are considered one of the best schools in the country.

In 2021, Truro High School students headed to a host of Russell Group and Top 10 universities. Destinations included Durham, Exeter, UCL, Royal Veterinary College and Edinburgh to read everything from Medicine and English Literature to French and Scandinavian Studies and Business Management. Almost a third of the entire year group headed to university to begin medical courses having taken advantage of our extensive Aspiring Medics programme of lectures and workshops.

*DfE and GSA data – exact statistics vary from year to year.