 Pupils generally take nine General Certificate of Secondary Education ( GCSE ) subjects in Year Eleven ( aged 15 – 16 ) , with compulsory maths , English , a language , humanity and science subject . Other subjects offered include art , music , resistant materials technology , food and nutrition , textiles , physics , chemistry , biology , French , German , Spanish , history and geography . Sixth form students have a choice of three , four or five A @-@ levels from a choice of 24 subjects . A 2009 Independent Schools Inspectorate report noted that GCSE and A @-@ level results were " well above the national average " . In 2010 , the number of pupils achieving the Level 2 threshold ( equivalent to five GCSEs at grades A * to C including English and maths GCSEs ) was listed as the second highest in the Cambridgeshire LEA with a 99 % pass rate . At AS and A2 levels , the school was listed as sixth in Cambridgeshire , with an average of 860 @.@ 9 points . The 2014 ISI report listed four ' Recommendations for further improvement ' http : / / www.isi.net / schools / 7255 / . The majority of students go on to higher education following the completion of their A @-@ levels at the end of Year Thirteen ( aged 17 – 18 ) . 
