Academic Standards
In March 2008, the Independent Schools Inspectorate reported that the school benefits from good, effective leadership, and that it provides "good and effective support, help and guidance for all pupils through a well-established pastoral system". The inspection team praised "the open and supportive relationships that exist between teachers and pupils, and amongst the pupils themselves, and the pupils' very positive attitudes towards learning, which make for an ethos in which boys and girls flourish and achieve well".
In summer 2007 it was rated the top independent school in the South West on points in A Level examinations, with an overall score equivalent to every candidate gaining more than 3 A grades. At GCSE, candidates scored 59% A*/A grades, with 42 pupils gaining at least 7 A*/As..
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