 Pupils generally take nine General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) subjects in Year Eleven (aged 15 – 16), with compulsory maths, English, a language, humanity and science subject. Other subjects offered include art, music, resistant materials technology, food and nutrition, textiles, physics, chemistry, biology, French, German, Spanish, history and geography. Sixth form students have a choice of three, four or five A-levels from a choice of 24 subjects. A 2009 Independent Schools Inspectorate report noted that GCSE and A-level results were "well above the national average". In 2010, the number of pupils achieving the Level 2 threshold (equivalent to five GCSEs at grades A * to C including English and maths GCSEs) was listed as the second highest in the Cambridgeshire LEA with a 99 % pass rate. At AS and A2 levels, the school was listed as sixth in Cambridgeshire, with an average of 860.9 points. The 2014 ISI report listed four 'Recommendations for further improvement' http: / / www.isi.net / schools / 7255 /. The majority of students go on to higher education following the completion of their A-levels at the end of Year Thirteen (aged 17 – 18).
