Truro High School for Girls

Truro High School is an award-winning independent girls’ school with around 400 pupils from the ages of 3-18, serving the local community in Truro, Cornwall, and well beyond. It takes pupils on a day, boarding or flexi-boarding basis, and runs a prep School, senior school and sixth form all on the same site.

Truro High School was founded in 1880 by Bishop Benson of Truro, moving to its current premises close to the centre of Truro in 1896.

Headmistress

Sarah Matthews

Values and vision

Truro High School strives to provide a personalised and happy all-round education that enables every girl to achieve her life and career aspirations. It aims to achieve this by offering outstanding teaching and pastoral care. It encourages girls both to grasp opportunities and to aim high, and to care for others in the community.

The school maintains a strong belief in the value of single-sex education, believing that they give girls the opportunity to take the lead in fields which are often male-dominated - giving as an example its thriving engineering programme.

ISI

"The pupils’ personal development is excellent. All pupils, from those in EYFS to the sixth form, are happy, kind, thoughtful and supportive of their peers...Inspectors judged that the wealth of opportunities available makes a considerable contribution.”

“Pupils throughout the school are successful in a wide range of activities, whether academic, sporting or creative. They achieve regular success in national maths challenge competitions and science Olympiads."

View Truro High School’s latest ISI report here