List of girls' schools in the United Kingdom explained
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
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Bristol
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- County Durham
- Devon
- Dorset
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester
- Hampshire
- Hertfordshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Merseyside
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire
- Norfolk
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- South Yorkshire
- Surrey
- Tyne and Wear
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands
- West Sussex
- West Yorkshire
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
Former girls' schools in England
(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
Scotland
Former girls' schools
Wales
- 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
- Guernsey
- Jersey
British Overseas Territories
- Bermuda
- Gibraltar
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Back to school - Bayside & Westside receive new year 7 intake . Gibraltar Broadcasting Company. 2021-09-03. 2022-10-15.
