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The Girls' Schools Association (GSA) is the professional association of the heads of independent girls' schools in the UK and overseas and is a constituent member of the Independent Schools Council

Independent Schools Council

The Independent Schools Council is a non-profit organisation that represents 1,234 schools in the United Kingdom's independent education sector...

(ISC).

History

The GSA can trace its history back to the Association of Headmistresses which was founded in 1874. Its president in 1964–66, Diana Reader Harris

Diana Reader Harris

Dame Muriel Diana Reader Harris was an English educator, school principal and public figure.-Early life:...

, ensured that it made a strong and considered response to the influential Plowden Report

Plowden Report

The Plowden Report is the unofficial name for the 1967 report of the Central Advisory Council For Education into Primary education in England. The report, entitled Children and their Primary Schools reviewed Primary education in a wholesale fashion. The collation of the report took around 3 years...

. It was established in 1974 following the amalgamation of two of the AHM's sub-groups: the Association of Heads of Girls' boarding Schools and the Association of Independent and Direct Grant Schools. It moved from London to its current headquarters in Leicester in 1984, where it now shares offices with the Association of School and College Leaders

Association of School and College Leaders

The Association of School and College Leaders , formerly the Secondary Heads Association , is the British professional association for leaders of secondary schools and colleges.-History:...

(ASCL). Since 1994 the GSA has been supported by a professional secretariat led by Sheila Cooper, Executive Director.

MyDaughter Website

In January 2009 the Girls' Schools Association set up a website at MyDaughter.co.uk offering advice to parents of daughters on all aspects of raising and educating girls. Advice is provided by head teachers from the member schools of the Girls' Schools Association and other specialists in fields such as nutrition, psychology, health education and business.

Structure

The GSA is a member-led organisation providing mutual professional support and representing the views of practising heads of girls' schools. The current President of the GSA is Dr Helen Wright, the head of St Mary's, Calne in Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

GSA members

Below is a list of GSA member schools.
There is a list of all the notable schools here. Others are:-

Abbots Bromley School for Girls
Abbots Bromley School for Girls
Abbots Bromley School for Girls is an independent, fee-paying school for girls aged 3–18 located in the village of Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire, England...
Abbot's Hill School
Abbot's Hill School
Abbot's Hill School is an independent girls' school in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.-Abbot's Hill House:It had been the home of John Dickinson who was his own architect in its building, just east of his paper mill, Nash Mills. Construction was commenced in 1836...
Alderley Edge School for Girls
Alderley Edge School for Girls
Alderley Edge School for Girls is an independent day school for girls, located in rural Cheshire in the village of Alderley Edge, England. The school caters for pupils aged three to eighteen, providing both secondary and primary school education, as well as a nursery and sixth form...
Amberfield School
Amberfield School
Amberfield School was a small private school in Nacton, England, coeducational up to the age of 7 years, and for girls up to the age of 16 years, which was established in 1927 and closed in 2011 due to financial problems. The last headmistress was Linda Ingram. It was set in countryside with...
Badminton School
Badminton School
Miriam Badock established a school for girls in 1858 at Badminton House in Clifton. By 1898 it had become known as Miss Bartlett's School for Young Ladies....
Bedford High School
Benenden School
Benenden School
Benenden School is an independent boarding school for girls in Kent, England. It is located in Benenden in the Kentish countryside, between Cranbrook and Tenterden....
Berkhamsted School
Blackheath High School GDST
Blackheath High School
Blackheath High School is situated near Blackheath Village in southeast London, England. It was founded in 1880 as part of the Girls' Day School Trust. The Senior Department is located in Vanbrugh Park after moving from Blackheath in 1993/4. The school in Blackheath village then became the Junior...
Bolton School (Girls' Division)
Bradford Girls' Grammar School
Bradford Girls' Grammar School
Founded in 1857, Bradford Girls' Grammar School is an independent senior school for girls aged 11 – 18 with co-educational preparatory school and nursery, called Lady Royd Preparatory School for boys and girls aged 2 – 11 years....
Brighton & Hove High School GDST
Brighton and Hove High School
Brighton & Hove High School is an independent day school for girls aged 3 – 18 in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England.Founded in 1876, the school has expanded from being a very small school for less than twenty pupils to its present size of taking some 700 students...
Bromley High School GDST
Bromley High School
Bromley High School is a girls' independent school located in Bickley, Greater London. The school is part of The Girls' Day School Trust and was founded in 1883...
Bruton School for Girls
Bruton School for Girls
Bruton School for Girls is an independent day and boarding school for girls aged 2 to 18 located near Pitcombe in Bruton in south east Somerset, England....
Burgess Hill School for Girls
Burgess Hill School
Burgess Hill School for Girls is an independent day and boarding school for girls aged between 2.5yrs and 18yrs . The School also has a small number of boys attending the Nursery. The School is situated on Keymer Road, in the West Sussex town of Burgess Hill, and is a five minute walk from Burgess...
Bury Grammar School Girls
Bury Grammar School
Bury Grammar School is an independent grammar school in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, that has existed since Kev Cryer was born, c.1570. The current headmaster is the Reverend Steven Harvey MA. The previous headmaster, Keith Richards MA, retired after sixteen years of headmastership on 7...
Casterton School
Central Newcastle High School GDST
Central Newcastle High School
Central Newcastle High School is an independent all-girls school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.-History:Central Newcastle High School was officially opened in 1895 and moved into its current home around 1899 with the foundation stone for the current building being laid by Earl Grey on the 13th of...
Channing School
Channing School For Girls
Channing School is an independent day school for girls aged 4–18 located on Highgate Hill in Highgate, London. The school was founded in 1885 and is affiliated with the Unitarian faith although it is open to all girls of various faiths and backgrounds. Channing currently enrols approximately 560...
City of London School for Girls
City of London School for Girls
City of London School for Girls is a girls' independent school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. It is sister school of the City of London School and the City of London Freemen's School .-History:The school was founded by William Ward in 1894...
Cobham Hall
Cobham Hall
Cobham Hall is a country house in Cobham, Kent, England. There has been a manor house on the site since the 12th century. The current building consists of a pair of Tudor wings built for William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham in the 16th century and a later classical central block, and a kitchen court...
Combe Bank School
Craigholme School
Craigholme School
Craigholme School is an independent all-girls school situated in the Pollokshields area of the South Side of Glasgow, Scotland.-History:The school was founded in 1894 by Mrs Jessie Murdoch as Pollokshields Ladies' School. The school had forty pupils on the roll and was housed at 63 Dalziel Drive in...
Cranford House School
Croydon High School GDST
Croydon High School
Croydon High School for Girls GDST is a leading non-denominational independent school for girls, located near Croydon, Greater London, England. It is one of the schools in the Girls' Day School Trust....
Dame Alice Harpur School
Dame Alice Harpur School
Dame Alice Harpur School is an independent girls school in Bedford, United Kingdom, for girls aged 11-18. In September 2010 the junior department of the school merged with the junior department of Bedford High School...
Dame Allan's Girls' School
Dame Allan's School, Newcastle
Dame Allan's Schools were founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in England in 1705, and are two of the oldest schools in the city.-History:They were founded by Dame Eleanor Allan, the daughter of a local goldsmith and the widow of a tobacco merchant, to provide a proper education for "40 poor boys and 20...
Derby High School
Derby High School, Derby
Derby High School, Derby, is an independent secondary school with a junior department at Littleover, Derby, England. The senior school is for girls only, but the kindergarten and junior school are co-educational.-Overview:...
Dodderhill School
Downe House
Dunottar School
Durham High School for Girls
Durham High School for Girls
Durham High School for Girls is a single-sex independent day school for 3 to 18 year olds in Durham City, United Kingdom.-History and current status:...
Edgbaston High School for Girls
Edgbaston High School
Edgbaston High School for Girls is an independent all girls primary and secondary school in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England. The current headmistress is Dr. Ruth Weeks. It has over 900 girls, in four departments, aged 2-18.-History:...
Farlington School
Farlington School for Girls
Farlington School for Girls is an independent school day and boarding school for girls aged three to eighteen in Horsham, West Sussex, England. Farlington was founded in 1896 originally in Haywards Heath but moved to its present site at Strood Green near Horsham in 1955...
Farnborough Hill
Farringtons School
Fernhill School
Fernhill School
Fernhill School is an independent Catholic school in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.-History:The school originated in a primary school run by the Sisters of Notre Dame since 1953, which in 1971 was announced for closure. A committee of parents was formed to keep the school open, and in...
Francis Holland Sch (Regent's Park)
Francis Holland School
Francis Holland School is the name of two independent day schools for girls in central London governed by the Francis Holland Schools Trust...
Francis Holland Sch (Sloane Square)
Francis Holland School
Francis Holland School is the name of two independent day schools for girls in central London governed by the Francis Holland Schools Trust...
Gateways School
Gateways School
Gateways School is an independent school in Harewood, West Yorkshire, England.The school is situated just north of Leeds and sees itself as part of the wider Harewood community.-Academic:...
Greenacre School for Girls
Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls
Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls
Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls is an independent school in Monmouth, Wales. The school was established by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in 1892, and continues to enjoy their support. There are four houses - Imbert Terry , Mather Jackson , Bagnall Oakely , and Prosser...
Harrogate Ladies' College
Harrogate Ladies' College
Harrogate Ladies' College is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18 years located in North Yorkshire, England. Harrogate Ladies' College is a Church of England foundation. All the facilities are campus-based. They include an indoor swimming pool, tennis courts, and...
Heathfield School
Heathfield School Pinner GDST
Hethersett Old Hall School
Highclare School
Hollygirt School
Holy Trinity School
Howell's School (Denbigh)
Howell's School, Llandaff GDST
Howell's School Llandaff
Howell’s School Llandaff is an independent school in Llandaff, Cardiff. The school teaches girls from the age of 3 years up to 18, and contains a nursery, junior, senior school and a sixth form college...
Ipswich High School GDST
Ipswich High School
Ipswich High School is a girls' independent school located at Woolverstone, near the town of Ipswich, England. It was founded in 1872 and is one of the schools of the Girls' Day School Trust.-History:...
James Allen's Girls' School
James Allen's Girls' School
James Allen's Girls' School, or JAGS, is an independent day school situated in Dulwich, South London, England. It has a senior school for 11–18 year old girls, a prep school for 7–11 year old girls , and a pre-preparatory school — JAPPS — for 4–7 year old girls.-Jags History:The school is part of...
Kent College
Kent College
Kent College, Canterbury is a co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils between the ages of 11 and 18. It was founded in 1885, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....
Kilgraston School
Kilgraston School
Kilgraston School is a British independent school, founded in 1930. It is a Roman Catholic boarding and day school for girls aged 2½–18 and day boys aged 2½–9. Currently more than 340 pupils attend Kilgraston, of which 158 live at Kilgraston for either week-nights or for entire half terms...
King Edward VI High School for Girls
King Edward VI High School for Girls
King Edward VI High School for Girls is an independent secondary school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. It is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham and occupies the same site as, and is twinned with, King Edward's School...
King's High School
King's High School
King's High School is a private, non-denominational Christian school, located in Shoreline, Washington, just north of Seattle. It enrolls approximately 470 students in 9th through 12th grade...
Lavant House
Leicester High School for Girls
Leicester High School for Girls
Leicester High School for Girls is an independent day school for girls aged 3-18 situated in South Knighton, Leicester. It was founded in 1906 by Mrs. Holles as a coeducational school, and it received its current name in 1985.The current headmistres is Mrs. Burns Although it is a Christian school...
Leweston School
Loughborough High School
Loughborough High School
Loughborough High School, also known simply as LHS, is a selective, independent, fee-paying British Public School for girls in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is one of three Private Schools known collectively as the Loughborough Endowed Schools, along with Loughborough Grammar School for...
Luckley-Oakfield School
Luckley-Oakfield School
Luckley-Oakfield School is a boarding and day school for girls in Berkshire in England. It has a community of about 300 girls, with about 240 pupils in the first five year groups, and 61 girls in the Sixth Form. The school is set in a rural location, south of the historic market town of...
Malvern St James
Manchester High School for Girls
Manchester High School for Girls
Manchester High School for Girls is an independent daytime school for girls and a member of the Girls School Association. It is situated in Fallowfield, Manchester, United Kingdom...
Manor House School
Marymount International School
Marymount London
Marymount International School London is a Catholic, independent, college-preparatory boarding and day school for girls in Grades 6 to 12. It is a seven-year comprehensive private high school in England, serving students from over 50 different countries...
Merchant Taylors' School for Girls
Moira House Girls' School
More House School
Moreton Hall
Moreton Hall
Moreton Hall is a Grade Two listed Georgian styled Edwardian house, built in the early 1900s and located in Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire, England...
New Hall School
New Hall School
New Hall is one of the oldest Catholic schools in England. It is located in the former Tudor Palace of Beaulieu in Essex.Today New Hall is a leading Catholic independent boarding & day school for boys and girls aged 3–18. Founded in 1642, New Hall School, Chelmsford, is the oldest Catholic school...
North London Collegiate School
North London Collegiate School
North London Collegiate School is an independent day school for girls founded in 1850 in Camden Town, and now in the London Borough of Harrow.The Good Schools Guide called the school an "Academically stunning outer London school in a glorious setting which, in 2003, demonstrated its refusal to rest...
Northampton High School GDST
Northampton High School
Northampton High School is a private selective day school for girls in Hardingstone, Northampton, England.- Location :The school is about from Northampton town centre along the Newport Pagnell road which separates the school from Wootton.- History :The school was founded in 1878 by a committee of...
Northwood College
Northwood College
Northwood College is an independent day school for girls aged 3 to 18. The school was founded in 1878 and is located in Northwood, London, England. It is the sister school of The John Lyon School.-History:...
Norwich High School GDST
Norwich High School
Norwich High School Chenango County, USA. Chenango CountyLisa Schuchman, Interim Principal89 Midland DriveNorwich, New York 13815 334-1600 x1439...
Notre Dame Senior School
Notre Dame School (Surrey)
Notre Dame School is an independent Catholic girls day school located in Cobham, Surrey, England. The school includes both a preparatory school and a senior school.-History:...
Notting Hill & Ealing High GDST
Notting Hill & Ealing High School
Notting Hill and Ealing High School is an independent school for girls aged 4 - 18, located in West Ealing, a suburb of London. Founded in 1873 it is one of the 26 schools that make up the Girls' Day School Trust...
Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
Nottingham High School
Nottingham High School is a British boys' independent school situated about a mile north of Nottingham city centre. It has around 900 pupils from ages 11 to 18 and there is the adjoining Nottingham High Junior School catering for younger boys and, from September 2008, the Lovell House...
Ockbrook School
Ockbrook School
Ockbrook School is an Independent School located in the village of Ockbrook on the outskirts of Derby. The school admits both day pupils and boarders....
Old Palace of John Whitgift School
Old Palace School
The Old Palace of John Whitgift School is an independent school for girls in Surrey, England, founded in 1889. The "Old Palace" itself was for 500 years the summer residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury.In the 19th century the Archbishops ended their residence at Croydon Palace and used...
Oldham Hulme Grammar Schools
Hulme Grammar School
Hulme Grammar School is an independent grammar school situated on and around Chamber Road, about three-quarters of a mile south of the centre of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, between Frederick Street and Windsor Road.-History:...
Oxford High School GDST
Palmers Green High School
Palmers Green High School
Palmers Green High School is an independent girls' school located in Hoppers Road, Palmers Green, North London in the London Borough of Enfield. -History:...
Peterborough High School
Peterborough High School
This article is about the school in Peterborough, England. For the school in Peterborough, South Australia with the same name, see Peterborough, South Australia....
Pipers Corner School
Pipers Corner School
Pipers Corner School is an independent day and boarding school for girls in Great Kingshill, Buckinghamshire, England.There are 580 pupils aged from 3 to 18 years...
Polam Hall School
Portsmouth High School GDST
Prior's Field School
Putney High School GDST
Putney High School
Putney High School is an independent all-girls school in Putney, London. It is run by the Girls' Day School Trust, a union of 26 schools with 19,500 students and 3,500 staff.-Location and information:...
Queen Anne's School Caversham
Queen Anne's School
Queen Anne's School in Caversham, Berkshire is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18, situated just north of the River Thames and Reading town centre and occupying a campus.There are around 330 pupils. Nearly half are boarders...
Queen Margaret's School (York)
Queen Margaret's School, York
Queen Margaret's, York is an independent day and boarding school for girls age 11–18 in Escrick Park near York. The school was named after Queen Margaret the Queen of Scotland from c.1070–1093.-History:...
Queen Mary's School (Thirsk)
Queen Mary's School
Queen Mary's School is a girls' school for day and boarding students ages 3–16 in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, England. Established in 1921, the school is set on of landscaped grounds and houses approximately 300 students. The school aims to offer a broad, inclusive curriculum...
Queen's College London
Queen's College, London
Queen's College is an independent school for girls aged 11–18. It is located in central London at numbers 43-49, Harley Street. Founded in 1848 by F. D. Maurice, Professor of English Literature and History at King's College London along with a committee of patrons, the College was the first...
Queen's Gate School
Queen's Gate School
Queen's Gate School is an all girls' independent school in South Kensington, London.The Good Schools Guide described it as a "Charming popular school, with a mixed intake, which does jolly well by its girls."The school is located in Central London...
Queenswood
Queenswood School
Queenswood School is a girls-only private school located near Hatfield in the English county of Hertfordshire. It offers admission at ages 11, 13 or 16 . The current headmistress is Pauline Edgar.-History:...
Redland High School for Girls
Redland High School for Girls
Redland High School for Girls is a selective and independent, non-denominational girls' school in the suburb of Redland, Bristol, England.-Admissions:...
Roedean School
Roedean School
-Roedeanians in fiction:* Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward * Dawn Drummond-Clayton * Emily James...
Royal Masonic School for Girls
Rye St Antony School
Rye St Antony School
Rye St Antony School is an independent Roman Catholic boarding and day school for girls aged 3 to 18 in Pullens Lane, Headington, Oxford, England. It is commonly abbreviated and referred to by both pupils and staff as 'Rye'. Rye is unique as a girls’ independent catholic school founded by lay women...
Saint Martin's
School of St Helen & St Katharine
School of St Helen and St Katharine
The School of St Helen & St Katharine is an English independent girls' school, located in Abingdon.- History :The School of St Helen & St Katharine was originally two separate girls' schools, St Helen's School and St Katharine's School, founded in the early years of the twentieth century...
Sheffield High School GDST
Sherborne Girls
Shrewsbury High School GDST
Shrewsbury High School
Shrewsbury High School is a school for girls in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Founded in 1885, Shrewsbury High is one of the smaller schools in the Girls' Day School Trust, having roughly 750 pupils aged 3 to 18....
Sir William Perkins's School
Sir William Perkins's School
HeadmistressMrs Del CookeChairman of GovernorsDr Alun JonesFounded1725School typeIndependent schoolReligious affiliationSecularSpecialismNoneForms4 LocationChertsey, EnglandEnrollment575...
South Hampstead High School GDST
South Hampstead High School
South Hampstead High School is an all-girls independent day school situated in Hampstead, north-west London. The school was founded and is still supported by The Girls' Day School Trust . The school operates over two sites, the Senior school and Junior school which are run as a single unit with...
St Albans High School
St Andrew's School
St Andrew's School, Pangbourne
St Andrew's School is an independent preparatory school in the hamlet of Buckhold, near Pangbourne, Berkshire, England.-History:The school was founded in 1934 as a boarding school for boys...
St Catherine's School, Bramley
St Catherine's School, Bramley
St. Catherine's School, established in 1885, is an independent girls' school in the village of Bramley, near Guildford, Surrey, England; it is one of the UK's most successful girls' independent schools. As of 2011, it has some 880 pupils, of whom around 170 aged 11–18 use the schools' boarding...
St Catherine's School, Twickenham
St Catherine's School, Twickenham
St Catherine's School in Twickenham, London, England, is an independent school for girls established in 1914 by the Sisters of Mercy. Beginning in a large house near Twickenham Green, it then moved to Orford Lodge and in 1919 to its present location on the bank of the Thames, formerly the site of...
St Dominic's High School for Girls
St Dominic's Priory School
St Francis' College
St. Francis' College, Letchworth
St Francis' College is a boarding and day school for girls aged 3–18 in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. The site is within the Letchworth Conservation Area, management of which is the responsibility of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation...
St Gabriel's School
St Gabriel's School
St Gabriel's School is an independent girls' day school at Sandleford Priory at Sandleford, two miles south of Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire.-Priory:...
St George's School, Ascot
St George's School for Girls (Edinburgh)
St. George's School, Edinburgh
St. George's School is an all-girls independent school situated in Ravelston, Edinburgh, Scotland.The curriculum is based on the Scottish education system but also uses aspects of the English education system, for example A-Levels are available in sixth form....
St Helen's School
St James Senior Girls' School
St James Independent Schools
St James' Independent Schools in London are three private schools for children aged 4 to 18. The juniors' and senior girls' schools are in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the senior boys' school in Ashford, Surrey.-History:...
St Joseph's Convent School
St Joseph's Convent School
St Joseph's College is an independent co-educational school in Reading, Berkshire, England. It is a Catholic day school for students aged 3 to 18. In September 2010, it changed its name to St Joseph's College to reflect the move into co-education.The school was founded by the Sisters of St Marie...
St Leonards-Mayfield School
St Leonards-Mayfield School
St Leonards-Mayfield School is an independent Roman Catholic boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18. It is situated in the village of Mayfield in East Sussex. The current headmistress is Miss Antonia Beary...

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St Margaret's School (Edinburgh)
St. Margaret's School, Edinburgh
St. Margaret's School was an independent school in the Newington area of Edinburgh, Scotland. The curriculum was based on the Scottish education system. The school closed its doors for the last time once the summer term ended in June 2010....
St Margaret's School (Exeter)
St Margaret's School, Bushey
St Margaret's School, Bushey
St Margaret's School is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 4–18 in Bushey, Hertfordshire.As well as day places for all age groups the school offers a range of flexible boarding options for both UK and international pupils from year 7 and is situated in of countryside...
St Margaret's School for Girls (Aberdeen)
St Margaret's School for Girls
St Margaret's School for Girls is a girl's school in Aberdeen, Scotland.-History:Since August 2005, St Margaret's is the only remaining school in the North of Scotland that caters exclusively to girls' education in primary and secondary departments for girls aged 5–18...
St Margaret's School Hampstead
St Margaret's School Hampstead
St Margaret's School is an independent girls' school in Hampstead, North London. The school has 150 girls and 24 teachers. In 2008 and 2009 the school came top of the Sunday Times' Small Independent Schools' league table.- History Overview :...
St Martha's Senior School
St Mary's Convent School
St Mary's School Ascot
St Mary's School Calne
St Mary's School (Calne)
St Mary's Calne, is an academically selective independent school at Calne, Wiltshire, for girls aged eleven to eighteen, with about 320 on roll. Most girls are boarders...
St Mary's School Cambridge
St Mary's School Colchester
St. Mary's School (Colchester)
St. Mary’s School, Colchester was founded in the summer of 1908.Originally based at St. Mary’s Terrace East on Lexden Road, the school moved to its current Victorian premises in Lexden Road in 1923, into a house known as Glen Mervyn...
St Mary's School Gerrards Cross
St Mary's School, Shaftesbury
St Nicholas' School
St Paul's Girls' School
St Paul's Girls' School
St Paul's Girls' School is a senior independent school, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in West London, England.-History:In 1904 a new day school for girls was established by the trustees of the Dean Colet Foundation , which had run St Paul's School for boys since the sixteenth century...
St Swithun's School
St Swithun's School, Winchester
St Swithun's School is an independent school for girls in Winchester, Hampshire. The school consists of St Swithun's Junior School and St Swithun's Senior School...
St Teresa's School
St Teresa's School
St Teresa's School is a British independent private day and boarding school for girls aged 11–18 in Effingham, Surrey, England, established in 1928...
Stephen Perse Foundation
Perse School for Girls
The Stephen Perse Foundation is an independent, fee-paying day school situated near the centre of Cambridge, England. The Foundation is made up of four schools: The Stephen Perse Pre-Prep School, for boys and girls aged 3-7, Perse Girls Junior School,for girls aged 7-11, Perse Girls Senior School,...
Stonar School
Stonar School
Stonar School, founded in 1895, is one of the UK's independent leading day and boarding school, at Cottles Park, Atworth, near in Wiltshire, south-west England...
Stover School
Streatham & Clapham High GDST
Streatham and Clapham High School
Streatham and Clapham High School is a successful independent day school for girls aged 3 to 18, situated in Streatham Hill, south London. The school was founded in 1887 by the Girls' Public Day School Company, which aimed to establish schools for girls of all classes by providing a high standard...
Surbiton High School
Surbiton High School
Surbiton High School is a private school in Surbiton in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England. It was founded in 1884 by a group of Anglican clergymen who instituted the Church Schools Company...
Sutton High School GDST
Sydenham High School GDST
Talbot Heath School
Talbot Heath School
Talbot Heath School is a selective, independent day and boarding school for girls aged 3–18 located in Talbot Woods, Bournemouth.The school was founded in 1886 as Bournemouth High School, by Mary Broad, with eighteen pupils. In 1935 the school moved from its original site in Westbourne to Talbot...
Teesside High School
Teesside High School
Teesside High School is an independent school in Eaglescliffe, near Stockton-on-Tees. It takes students aged from three to eighteen and is a diamond school, meaning the primary school and sixth form are coeducation while girls and boys are taught separately at the secondary level.- History :The...
The Abbey School
The Abbey School
The Abbey School is an independent selective day school for girls, in Reading, Berkshire, England. The school has Church of England traditions, although it accepts girls of all faiths...
The Brigidine School
The Cheltenham Ladies' College
Cheltenham Ladies' College
The Cheltenham Ladies' College is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.-History:The school was founded in 1853...
The Godolphin and Latymer School
Godolphin and Latymer School
The Godolphin and Latymer School is an independent school for 700 girls aged eleven to eighteen in London. Ms Margaret Rudland was the head mistress of the school for over 20 years before being succeeded by Ms Ruth Mercer.-History:...
The Godolphin School
Godolphin School
The Godolphin School is an independent boarding school for girls at Salisbury in Wiltshire, England, founded in 1726. The school educates some 430 girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen.-History:...
The Grammar School at Leeds
The Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls is an academically high-achieving British independent school in Elstree, near Borehamwood, in the county of Hertfordshire. It is often known as "Habs" or "Habs girls", to distinguish it from the neighbouring Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School...
The Kingsley School
Kingsley School
The Kingsley School is situated in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, just to the north of the town centre. Kingsley is an independent girls' day school taking girls from 3 to 18; the Junior School also takes boys up to the age of seven....
The Ladies' College
Ladies' College
Ladies' College is a private single sex secondary school in Guernsey, Channel Islands. Despite catering solely for girls in the early years, in the sixth form lessons are shared with the school's boys' counterpart Elizabeth College, with the girls and boys being given a small window of time between...
The Lady Eleanor Holles School
The Marist Senior School
The Marist Schools
The Marist Schools are independent Catholic day schools for girls aged 3–18.They are Catholic schools but welcome all Christians and other faiths who are in sympathy with the schools' ethos. Girls enter the Nursery from age 3 and the Preparatory School from age 4 to 11 years. Once girls reach 11...
The Mary Erskine School
The Mary Erskine School
The Mary Erskine School, popularly known simply as "Mary Erskine's" or "MES" for short, paired with the all boys school Stewart's Melville College is an all girls independent secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland...
The Maynard School
The Maynard School
The Maynard School is an independent and selective day school for girls aged 7–18 in the city of Exeter in Devon. It is one of the leading girls day schools in the UK, with an excellent academic reputation in both public exams and university entrance. Currently, there are approximately 420 day...
The Mount School (London)
The Mount School (York)
The Mount School, York
The Mount School is a Quaker independent day and boarding school in York, England, for girls aged 11–18. It was founded in 1831. Its preparatory school is called Tregelles, and it accepts only girls from 2012 onwards and has a nursery department. There are two or three forms in Year 7 to 11 and...
The Newcastle upon Tyne Church High
The Princess Helena College
Princess Helena College
Princess Helena College is an independent school for girls located in the small village of Preston near Hitchin in Hertfordshire. It is housed in a Grade II* listed Queen Anne country house, which was redesigned by Edwin Lutyens, at the same time as the gardens were designed by his great friend,...
The Queen's School Chester
The Queen's School, Chester
The Queen's School is an independent day school for girls aged 4–18 located in Chester, England. The school was founded in 1878 and was originally called The Chester School for Girls. In 1882, Queen Victoria issued a royal decree naming the school as The Queen's School, the only school in England...
The Red Maids' School
Red Maids' School
The Red Maids' School is an independent school for girls in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. The school is a member of the Girls' Schools Association and a MyDaughter school.-History:...
The Royal High School Bath GDST
Royal High School, Bath
The Royal High School is an independent day and boarding school for girls in the city of Bath, Somerset, England, catering for approximately 1,000 pupils.-Admissions:The school is located on Lansdown Hill just outside Bath city centre...
The Royal School Hampstead
The Royal School Haslemere
Royal School Haslemere
The Royal School Haslemere is an independent school for girls aged 4–18 in Haslemere and Hindhead in Surrey, England.It was created from the 1995 amalgamation of the Royal Naval School for Girls and The Grove School ....
The Stamford Endowed Schools
Stamford School
Stamford School is an English independent school situated in the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It has been a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 1920.-History:...
Thornton College
Tormead School
Tormead School
Tormead School is an academically selective, independent day school for girls aged 4 – 18 years old. Founded in 1905, it is situated in Guildford, Surrey, England. It comprises a Junior School, Senior School and Sixth Form...
Truro High School for Girls
Truro High School for Girls
Truro High School for Girls is a private school in Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom, for girls aged 3–18.The school was founded in 1880 by the future archbishop Edward White Benson, then Bishop of Truro.Its first headmistress was Amy Key...
Tudor Hall
Wakefield Girls' High School
Walthamstow Hall
Walthamstow Hall
-History:Walthamstow Hall was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest all-girl independent schools in the country. It was found as an inter-denominational mission school and home for the daughters of Christian missionaries. It provides an 'all-through' education with a Junior School for girls aged...
Westfield School
Westfield School
-United Kingdom:* Westfield School, Bourne, in Lincolnshire* Westfield School, Bourne End, a special school in Buckinghamshire* Westfield School, Newcastle upon Tyne, in Tyne and Wear* Westfield School , in South Yorkshire...
Westholme School
Westholme School
Westholme School is an independent school set on the edge of the countryside to the west of Blackburn, England, providing a caring learning environment for girls aged 2 to 18 and boys aged 2 to 11. There are five separate departments of the school which cater for students from nursery to sixth form...
Westonbirt
Westonbirt School
Westonbirt School is an independent day and boarding school for girls located in Gloucestershire in South West England. Founded in 1928, it is a member of the Allied Schools organisation...
Wimbledon High School GDST
Wimbledon High School
.Wimbledon High School is an independent girls' school in Wimbledon, South West London. It is run by the Girls' Day School Trust and celebrated its 130th birthday on November 9 2010, having been founded by Edith Hastings in 1880. WHS educates girls between the ages of 4 and 18.The motto is "Ex...
Withington Girls' School
Withington Girls' School
Withington Girls' School is an independent day school in Fallowfield, Manchester, United Kingdom, providing education for girls between the ages of seven and eighteen. Withington Girls' School is a member of the Girls' Schools Association and a MyDaughter school. Withington is consistently ranked...
Woldingham School
Woldingham School
Woldingham School is an all-girls, independent, Roman Catholic, boarding and day school in Woldingham, Surrey, England.-History:The school was founded as the Convent of the Sacred Heart in 1842 in Berrymead, London by the Society of the Sacred Heart...
Wychwood School
Wycombe Abbey School
Wykeham House School

GSA Overseas members

San Silvestre School
San Silvestre School
San Silvestre School is a British-Peruvian private school located in Lima, Peru. The program is girls only, non-residential and extends from early childhood through Form VI . It is divided into Early Years Primary ) and Secondary sections...
Westlake Girls High School
Latifa School for Girls
Latifa School for Girls
Latifa School for Girls was founded in 1982 by Sheikh Maktoum.It was headed by Tim Charlton, who also founded Dubai College in 1978....
Unison World School

GSA Affiliate members

Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
Birkenhead High School GDST
Dr Challoner's High School
Dr Challoner's High School
Dr Challoner's High School, abbreviated to DCHS, is a grammar school for girls between the ages of 11 and 18, located in Buckinghamshire, England. In August 2011 the school became an Academy....
King Edward VI High School for Girls
King Edward VI High School for Girls
King Edward VI High School for Girls is an independent secondary school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. It is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham and occupies the same site as, and is twinned with, King Edward's School...
Colston's Girls' School
Colston's Girls' School
Colston's Girls' School, is an Academy for girls in Bristol, England. Prior to 2008 the school was a selective independent school, voluntarily converting to a state-funded Academy with effect from September 2008...
Ursuline Preparatory School
Stamford High School
Stamford High School, Lincolnshire
Stamford High School is an English girls' Independent School situated in the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England on .-Education:...

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