Notable alumni
EMS opened in 2014, so its alumni are all still young — this page is short, and that's the honest answer, not a gap in the research.
We do not treat "went to a good university" as notability — that's routine outcomes data, already covered on our results page. An entry here needs an independently documented public competition record, genuine independent press coverage as an adult, or a substantial published profile of returning to the school in a public role.
Lily Kearney
Named reserve for the UK team at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad in both 2019 and 2020 while a student at Exeter Mathematics School. Now studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, and represents England internationally in contract bridge — bronze medal at the World Youth Pairs Championship, the 2021 Under-26 Women's Channel Trophy, the EBU Young Pair Award (2025), and in April 2025, with partner Dido Coley, became the youngest pair to win the Lady Milne Trials, going on to represent England at the senior, open-age Lady Milne Trophy.
The school's own alumni programme
The school runs its own alumni programme (sign-up via exetermathematicsschool.ac.uk/about-us/our-alumni/, contact alumni@exetermathematicsschool.ac.uk), inviting former students back to mentor current ones, give careers and university talks, and support outreach — alongside a parallel "Friends of EMS" track for non-alumni supporters. The school's own site features a small number of first-name, leaving-year alumni profiles as part of this — its own published examples include Tilly ('16), Ellie ('17), Ruth ('16), Patrick ('16), Fiona ('18) and Alex ('17).