- One of the 24 independent schools within the Girls’ Day School Trust, Sutton High School is the first independent school in the country to achieve the Platinum Career Mark in recognition of its superb careers service.
- Girls can enjoy in excess of 100 weekly groups, from digital drawing to the Stem society. More than half of pupils play a musical instrument, and plays are staged in the outdoor amphitheatre.
- Pupils have access to a counselling service as well as a wellbeing dog and an emotional literacy assistant, and there are workshops covering topics such as friendship and the teenage brain. All pupils have the opportunity to study eco-awareness and to enrol on the entrepreneurship programme, run in association with the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Beyond A-levels, the school offers the Extended Project Qualification, the Space Technology Diploma and British Sign Language qualifications.
- Bursaries are means-tested and cover from 30 per cent to 100 per cent of school fees. Scholarships are available at year 7 and sixth-form entries.
- Notable former pupils include the novelist and poet Helen Dunmore, the politician Ruth Kelly and the journalist Marianna Spring.
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