List of girls' schools in the United Kingdom
This is a list of, in the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories, schools that only admit girls, or those that only admit girls at certain levels, years, or grades—or those that follow the Diamond Schools model, which separates students by gender at points.
England
[edit]- Bedfordshire
- Bedford Girls' School
- Bedford High School, Bedfordshire and Dame Alice Harpur School merged into Bedford Girls'
- Challney High School for Girls
- Berkshire
- The Abbey School, Reading
- Downe House School (Cold Ash)
- Heathfield School, Ascot
- The Marist Schools
- Queen Anne's School
- St Gabriel's School (coed junior school, girls only from ages 12-18)
- St George's School, Ascot
- St Mary's School Ascot
- Windsor Girls' School
- Bristol
- Badminton School
- Montpelier High School
- Redmaids' High School
- Redland High School for Girls and The Red Maids' School merged into Redmaids' High
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- County Durham
- Devon
- Dorset
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Brighton Girls
- Mayfield School, Mayfield (formerly St Leonards-Mayfield School)
- Roedean School
- Essex
- Chelmsford County High School for Girls (Grammar - entry by 11+)
- Colchester County High School for Girls (Grammar - entry by 11+)
- Southend High School for Girls (Grammar - entry by 11+)
- Westcliff High School for Girls (Grammar - entry by 11+)
- New Hall School Girls' Senior School
- St Mary's School, Colchester
- Gloucestershire
- Greater London
- James Allen's Girls' School
- Ayesha Siddiqa Girls School
- Blackheath High School
- Bromley High School
- Camden School for Girls
- Channing School
- Chislehurst School for Girls
- City of London School for Girls
- Connaught School for Girls
- Croydon High School
- Eltham Hill School
- Francis Holland School
- Glendower Preparatory School
- Godolphin and Latymer School
- Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich
- Henrietta Barnett School
- Hornsey School for Girls
- La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School
- Lady Eleanor Holles School
- The Laurels School
- Madani Girls' School
- Marymount International School London
- Mulberry School for Girls
- Newstead Wood School
- North London Collegiate School
- Northwood College
- Notting Hill and Ealing High School
- Old Palace School
- Palmers Green High School
- Putney High School
- Queen Elizabeth's School for Girls
- Queen's College, London
- Queen's Gate School
- South Hampstead High School
- St Catherine's School, Twickenham
- St Helen's School
- St James Independent Schools Senior Girls School
- St Margaret's School Hampstead
- St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls
- St Paul's Girls' School
- Streatham and Clapham High School
- Surbiton High School (coeducational ages 4-11, and girls until 18)
- Sutton High School, London
- Sydenham High School
- Tayyibah Girls' School
- Tiffin Girls' School
- Tolworth Girls' School
- Ursuline Preparatory School
- Waldegrave School
- Walthamstow School for Girls
- The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls
- Wimbledon High School
- Greater Manchester
- Altrincham Grammar School for Girls
- Bolton School Single Sex Junior, Senior, and Sixth Form schools
- Bolton Muslim Girls' School
- Bury Grammar School (for girls)
- Fairfield High School for Girls
- Flixton Girls' School
- Manchester High School for Girls
- Whalley Range High School
- Withington Girls' School
- Hampshire
- Farnborough Hill
- Portsmouth High School, Southsea
- St Nicholas' School, Hampshire
- St Swithun's School, Winchester
- Hertfordshire
- Abbot's Hill School
- Berkhamsted School Separate Girls' Senior School
- Haberdashers' Girls' School (formerly Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls)
- Hitchin Girls' School
- Queenswood School
- The Royal Masonic School for Girls (Nursery is coeducational but further grades are girls' only)
- St Albans High School for Girls
- St Albans Girls' School
- St Francis' College, Letchworth
- St Margaret's School, Bushey
- Watford Grammar School for Girls
- Kent
- Benenden School
- Cobham Hall School
- Dartford Grammar School for Girls
- Kent College, Pembury
- Maidstone Grammar School for Girls
- Walthamstow Hall
- Wilmington Grammar School for Girls
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Leicester High School for Girls
- Loughborough High School
- Loughborough Amherst School (formerly Our Lady's Convent School) - Coed ages 4-11 then girls only until 18
- Lincolnshire
- Merseyside
- North Yorkshire
- Harrogate Ladies' College (coeducational for ages 2-11 with girls' only until age 18)
- The Mount School, York
- Queen Margaret's School, York
- Queen Mary's School
- Skipton Girls' High School
- Northamptonshire
- Northampton High School, England
- Southfield School
- Norfolk
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Cranford House School
- Headington School
- Oxford High School, England
- Rye St Antony School
- St Helen and St Katharine
- Tudor Hall School, Banbury
- Shropshire
- Adcote School
- Moreton Hall School
- Shrewsbury High School, Shropshire (coed from ages 3-13 and girls only ages 13-18)
- Somerset
- South Yorkshire
- Surrey
- Manor House School, Little Bookham
- Notre Dame School, Surrey
- Prior's Field School
- Rosebery School
- Sir William Perkins's School
- St Catherine's School, Bramley
- St Teresa's School Effingham
- Tormead School
- Woldingham School
- Tyne and Wear
- Newcastle High School for Girls
- Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School (merged into Newcastle High School for Girls)
- Westfield School, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Warwickshire
- The King's High School for Girls
- The Kingsley School (coed for preparatory school, girls only for senior school and sixth form)
- Stratford Girls' Grammar School
- West Midlands
- Birmingham
- Edgbaston High School
- Handsworth Wood Girls' Academy
- Hillcrest School, Birmingham
- Hodge Hill Girls' School
- King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls
- King Edward VI High School for Girls
- King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls
- Kings Norton Girls' School
- Selly Park Girls' School
- St Paul's School for Girls
- Swanshurst School
- West Sussex
- Burgess Hill Girls
- Farlington School (has boys only at reception)
- West Yorkshire
- Bradford Girls' Grammar School (coed ages 5-11, girls only ages 11-18)
- Gateways School (coed until age 11, girls only ages 11-18)
- Wakefield Girls' High School
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
Former girls' schools in England
[edit]- Amberfield School (girls only for ages 7-16)
- Bedgebury School
(Girls only ages 7-18) closed.
- Brigidine School, became Queensmead School Windsor, became coeducational, and closed
- Cambridgeshire High School for Girls which became the Long Road Sixth Form College
- Carlisle & County High School for Girls (now (Richard Rose Central Academy)
- Casterton School (became coeducational for a year and merged into Sedbergh School)
- Clarendon School for Girls (merged with Monkton Combe School)
- Commonweal Lodge (Closed)
- Derby High School, Derbyshire (previously girls' only for years 7-12 but will begin admitting boys for those years in 2019, making it fully coeducational)
- Donnison School, Sunderland Closed)
- Downham School
- Droylsden School, Mathematics and Computing College for Girls, merged with Littlemoss High School to form Droylsden Academy
- Heatherton House School (merged into Berkhamsted School)
- Heathfield School, Pinner
- Hethersett Old Hall School (closed in 2019)
- Ipswich High School (Suffolk) - Became coeducational in 2018
- Leeds Girls' High School, merged with Leeds Grammar School into the Grammar School at Leeds
- Leweston School, previously had a girls' only senior school, later became fully coeducational
- Manchester Central High School for Girls, which merged into Manchester Academy in 1967
- St Martha's Catholic School for Girls, became Mount House School, and as of 2018 is coeducational
- The Peterborough School (fully coeducational since 2010)
- Princess Helena College (became coeducational in 2019)
- The Royal School, Hampstead
- The Royal School, Haslemere (became a Diamond school in 2011)
- St Dominic's Grammar School (became coeducational by 2018)
- St Dominic's Priory School, Stone (now coeducational)
- St Joseph's Convent School, Reading, which became coeducational and is now St Joseph's College, Reading
- St Mary's School, Wantage
- Stonar School (became coeducational)
- Westholme School - Previously had a separate girls' junior school
- Winchester County High School for Girls - Now The Westgate School, Winchester (coeducational)
- Wykeham House School - had separate boys and girls schools - closed
Teesside High School used the Diamond model for a period but no longer does.
Northern Ireland
[edit]Scotland
[edit]- The Mary Erskine School, Edinburgh
- St George's School, Edinburgh
- St Margaret's School for Girls, Aberdeen
Former girls' schools
- Albyn School for Girls (became coeducational beginning in 2005)
- Glasgow Industrial School for Girls
- St Margaret's School, Edinburgh
- Kilgraston School, Perth (closed in 2024)
- Butterstone House School (merged with Kilgraston School in 2003)
- St Leonards School (became coeducational beginning in 1999)
- Hutchesons' Grammar School (had separate girls' school - became coeducational in 1976)
- Notre Dame High School, Glasgow (became coeducational in 2019)
- Park School for Girls, Glasgow (closed in 1996)
Wales
[edit]- Former schools
- Aberdare Girls' School
- Cowbridge Girls School
- Howell's School, Denbigh. Now Middleton College International School
- St.Brigid's School, Denbigh. Now a co-educational state school
- Lowther College, Flint
- Kent College, North Wales
Crown Dependencies
[edit]British Overseas Territories
[edit]- Formerly for girls only: Westside School, Gibraltar (now coeducational)[1]
See also
[edit]- Girls' Schools Association
- Girls' Day School Trust
- List of boys' schools in the United Kingdom
- List of girls' schools in Hong Kong (Hong Kong was formerly a territory of the UK)
References
[edit]- ^ "Back to school - Bayside & Westside receive new year 7 intake". Gibraltar Broadcasting Company. 2021-09-03. Retrieved 2022-10-15.