Stroud High School - More About Stroud High School

More About Stroud High School

The school can accommodate approximately 900 students. Due to the geography of Stroud and its environs, these students are drawn from a very wide geographical area of central and southern Gloucestershire, usually from over 60 different feeder primary schools.

Over the last five years, SHS has undergone a wide ranging improvement programme to its accommodation. All classrooms are now either new or have been modernised and all are equipped with interactive whiteboards. In addition there are six ICT suites including a multi-media facility together with a small recording studio and state-of-the-art video conferencing equipment. In 2009, the Junior School site also had a complete refurbishment with the addition of a dance studio, kiln room and large art room.

Historically the demand for places at Stroud High School has always exceeded its capacity. Each year prospective students sit an NFER Verbal Reasoning test and the top scoring 120 students are offered places automatically.

In the academic year 2010/11 the school has approximately 640 students in Years 7 to 11 (128 girls in each year). A joint Sixth Form, of over 500 students is organised with the neighbouring boys’ grammar Marling School. This joint Sixth Form also forms part of the Stroud District Partnership which includes Marling School, Maidenhill School, Archway School, South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, Rednock School and Katherine Lady Berkeley's School. The Stroud District Partnership is a grouping working to build a shared curriculum from the ages of 14 to 19.