Nonsuch High School for Girls, Sutton

Ofsted's report card from its 10 February 2026 inspection grades Nonsuch High School for Girls on 7 areas: 1 exceptional and 6 strong standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Exceptional. "Pupils attend school regularly and behave to an exceptionally high standard."

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils achieve very highly across the curriculum."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders have established a broad, ambitious and imaginative curriculum."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "The school places inclusion at the heart of its work, ensuring that pupils who face barriers to their learning can flourish."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders, trustees and governors share an ambitious vision for the school and its future."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Personal development and wellbeing have a high priority at this school."

Post 16 provision - Strong standard. "Leaders have a clear vision for the school's post-16 provision."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teaching helps pupils to deepen their understanding of the curriculum even further"; "Leaders should refine their analysis of how well pupils engage in the school's personal development programme so that the impact of this offer is fully realised".

In its own words: "It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Nonsuch High School for Girls. Nonsuch has been at the forefront of girls' education for almost 90 years. We are extremely proud of our history and of our students, both past and present."

From the headteacher's welcome: "We are delighted you are considering our sixth form as the place to spend the next two years studying your A-levels. Our Sixth Form is a vibrant and exciting community and as you enter our Sixth Form, we will look to you to take the lead, both in your studies and outside the classroom."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include chess, debating, Duke of Edinburgh and cadets.

In 2026, pupils at Nonsuch High School for Girls averaged an Attainment 8 score of 81.8, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 62.3 in Sutton and 47 across England.

100% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 72% in Sutton and 47% in England.

That is up from 80.5 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 1.02: pupils made well above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 80.8, against 81.9 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 1.1 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 24 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Nonsuch High School for Girls is a grammar school: places go to children who reach the required standard in its entrance test, and only then are the oversubscription criteria applied.

For September 2026 entry, 274 families put Nonsuch High School for Girls as their first choice and 1033 named it as one of their preferences, for 208 places offered. That is 1.3 first choices for every place. 128 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

Nonsuch High School for Girls admits pupils through an entrance test - in Sutton, the Selective Eligibility Test (SET). Children have to be registered for it in advance, normally in the spring or summer of Year 5; the test itself is usually sat in September of Year 6, and results come out in October, before the 31 October deadline for naming secondary schools.

Passing the test makes a child eligible rather than guaranteeing a place: when more children pass than there are places, Nonsuch High School for Girls ranks them by the criteria in its admissions policy, which can include test score and distance. Check Sutton's admissions pages and the school's own policy for this year's registration deadline - a child who is not registered in time cannot sit the test.

Sutton has 5 state grammar schools in all, so a child who passes may have several selective schools to choose between.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Nonsuch High School for Girls are Cheam High School (0.8 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 53.1); Overton Grange School (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.3); Harris Academy Sutton (1.4 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 58.7); and Glyn School (1.6 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 56.4).

Nonsuch High School for Girls's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Nonsuch High School for Girls is one of 3 schools run by Girls' Learning Trust, an academy trust.

169 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Nonsuch High School for Girls (as of April 2026): 86% would recommend the school, 81% say their child is happy there and 50% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (95%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (50%).

Of the 209 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 95% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 1% to a further education college and 2% into work.

Of the 230 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 83% went on to university or other higher education, 2% to apprenticeships and 7% into work. 65% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

8.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 52.5% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Asian (67%), Chinese (9%) and White British (8%).

In 2026, 49 pupils (3.3%) received SEN support and 5 (0.3%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

The nearest railway station is Cheam, about 630 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Nonsuch Park, 270 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Nonsuch High School for Girls stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 65 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Sutton (324).

In 2024/25, Nonsuch High School for Girls issued 24 suspensions, 1.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Nonsuch High School for Girls are St Dunstan's Cheam CofE Primary School (0.2 miles), Cuddington Croft Primary School and Nursery (0.3 miles), Cheam Fields Primary Academy (0.7 miles) and Nonsuch Primary School (0.9 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.