| Queen Margaret's School, York | |
| Coordinates: | 53.8729°N -1.0404°W |
| Motto: | Filia Regis (Daughter of the King) |
| Head Label: | Head |
| Head: | Sue Baillie |
| R Head Label: | Chaplain |
| R Head: | Robert Owen |
| Chair Label: | Chairman of the Board of Governors |
| Chair: | Terry Burt |
| Founder: | Woodard Foundation[1] |
| Country: | England |
| Postcode: | YO19 6EU |
| Dfeno: | 815/6035 |
| Urn: | 121749 |
| Gender: | Girls |
| Enrolment: | 215 |
| Lower Age: | 11 |
| Upper Age: | 18 |
| Free Label 1: | Former pupils |
| Website: | https://queenmargarets.com/ |
Established in 1901, Queen Margaret's (QM) is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11–18 set in 75 acres of parkland, six miles south of York.
Queen Margaret's was established in 1901 in Scarborough mainly by Jane Leeke Latham of the Woodard Foundation.[2] Woodard are an organisation committed to the establishment of boarding schools where teaching would be firmly based on the Christian religion. The founding head was Agnes Body who arrived from Lincoln with some of her former staff. In 1913, when ill health made her retire, it was said that QM was known as "Miss Body's School".
Rosalind Fowler became the second Head and she supervised the evacuation of the School to the Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry during the First World War. Following another evacuation to Castle Howard in the Second World War, QM finally came to Escrick Park, six miles south of York, in 1949,[3] where it remains today. Mrs Sue Baillie commenced her headship in September 2019, taking over from the previous Head Mrs Jessica Miles.
The pass rate at A Level in 2021 was 100% and 47% of all grades were at A*, with 78% at A*-A (nationally that figure was 44%).
The pass rate at GCSE in 2021 was 100%. One third (33%) of all GCSE results were at grade 9 and two thirds (67%) were at grades 9–7.[4]
A 2019 inspection by the Independent Schools Inspectorate awarded Queen Margaret's its highest 'Excellent' rating across all categories inspected.[5]
The School offers individual and group lessons in ballet, tap, hip-hop, contemporary and modern dance.
Music plays an important role in life at QM with 45% of girls learning at least one instrument and over a quarter of those girls learning more than one instrument.
Sports facilities include an all-weather Astroturf, a sports hall, a competition-standard indoor swimming pool and a recreational outdoor pool, all-weather tennis courts, indoor squash courts, and a riding school adjacent to the main school campus. Main winter activities include: lacrosse, cross country, hockey, and netball. Summer sports include: athletics, cricket and rounders. Badminton, tennis, and squash are played at all levels.
Queen Margaret's has horizontal boarding houses for boarding, and vertical houses across all ages.
There are six vertical houses: Garry, Pitlochry, Duncan, QM Hall, School and St Aidan's. Each pupil and teacher is assigned to one of the houses and each house is run by a teacher as Head of House; two Upper Sixth girls are chosen to be House Captain and Deputy House Captain, and two or three Fourth Year (Year 10) girls are chosen as House Monitors. Inter-house competitions include those for sport, cookery and music.
Around 80% of pupils are boarders. They are assigned to a boarding house based on year group and age. Each boarding house is supervised by a housemaster or housemistress who is assisted by the Head of Year.[6]
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| Motto: | Filia Regis [8] |
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