Foundation & History

Truro School was founded by Cornish Methodists in 1880, the same year that the foundation stones were laid for Truro’s Victorian Gothic cathedral. From its position high on the hill to the south of Truro the school looks out over the city, cathedral and river estuary. Originally known as Truro College, the school gained a reputation for “godliness and good learning”. We remain a Christian Methodist school today, that welcomes members of other faiths, and none, in a spirit of openness and tolerance.

Truro School became fully coeducational in 1990 and is now the largest coeducational day and boarding school in Cornwall. We are convinced that society is best served by schools which promote understanding and respect between the sexes, and that educating boys and girls together provides them with the best preparation for a world of work in which men and women compete as equals.