Wimbledon High School GDST
School summary
Part of the Girls' Day School Trust and founded in 1880, Wimbledon High School educates girls from age four through to eighteen on a single Merton site, with around 743 pupils including a sixth form of 210. Non-denominational and academically selective, it earned an 'excellent' rating from the ISI across both education quality and personal development, with all compliance standards met. The school combines strong academic ambition with a structured, calm approach to school life, including a graduated mobile phone policy that loosens as girls move up the years. Means-tested bursaries of up to 110 per cent, alongside academic and music scholarships, broaden access to a school whose day fees run to around £28,857 a year.
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Latest results
GCSE grade 9-7
86%
National average 23%
A-level A*-A
43%
National average 28%
A-level A*-B
95%
National average 55%
Inspection reports
- ISI rating
- excellent
- ISI personal development
- excellent
- Last inspected
- 19 March 2024
Teaching & academics
Results sit well above national benchmarks: 86 per cent of GCSE entries reached grades 9-7 against a national average of 23 per cent, and at A-level 43 per cent achieved A*-A with 95 per cent at A*-B. Sciences and mathematics are clearly popular at every stage, sitting alongside humanities and social sciences such as History, Economics and Psychology in the sixth form. The curriculum spans GCSE and A-level with the EPQ available, and language provision is unusually broad, taking in French, Spanish, German and Chinese.
Languages
GCSE subjects
Head · Ms Fionnuala Kennedy
Sixth form
- Sixth-form pupils
- 210
A-level subjects
Qualifications offered
School life & ethos
- Founded
- 1880
- Religious character
- Non-denom
- Boarding
- No
- SEN support
- 14.54%
- EHC plans
- 0%
Mobile phone policy
Lower school (years 7 and 8) and middle school (years 9 – 11) students should have their phones off all day and leave them in their lockers. Lower school students must put their phones in their Phone Away (clear Perspex) locker by morning registration until the end of the school day. Year 11 students only are allowed to use their phones in their common room, although this privilege can be removed if it is abused by a member or members of the year group. Sixth formers can have their phones on their person and are allowed to use them within designated sixth form spaces (Cafe Sixth, common and quiet rooms) only.
Fees & bursaries
- Day fees (per year)
- £28,857 - £22,416
- Bursaries up to
- 110% of fees
Means-tested bursaries up to 110 per cent
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Compiled from public data. Last checked 5 June 2026.