Shrewsbury High School, Shropshire

This article is about an independent girls school. Not to be confused with Shrewsbury School or Shrewsbury Academy.

Shrewsbury High School
Address
Map
32 Town Walls

Shrewsbury
,
Shropshire
,
SY1 1TN

England
Coordinates52°42′18″N 2°45′25″W / 52.705°N 2.757°W / 52.705; -2.757
Information
TypePrivate day school
Established1885
Local authorityShropshire
HeadDarren Payne
GenderGirls;
Age4 to 18
Houses4
Websitehttp://www.shrewsburyhigh.gdst.net/

Shrewsbury High School is a private day school for girls from ages 4 – 18 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It is an original member school of the Girls' Day School Trust.[1]

History

Shrewsbury High School opened as a day school for girls in 1885. In 1893 the rising star Ethel Gavin took over as head.[2] The school had outgrown its site and it moved to its present location on the banks of the River Severn in central Shrewsbury in 1895.[citation needed] Gavin moved on to another headship in 1897.[2] The junior department transferred to Kennedy Road in 1959. In 2008 a new prep school was formed by the merger of the existing junior department with Kingsland Grange, a boys’ prep school. The Junior Department has now moved to the historic Town Walls campus as an all-through all-girls school from 4-18.

The Senior Department is located on Town Walls, by the banks of the River Severn.

Notable former pupils

See also: Category:People educated at Shrewsbury High School, Shropshire

Notes and references

  1. ^ History
  2. ^ a b Sayers, Jane E. (2004). "Gavin, Ethel (1866–1918), educationist and headmistress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55584. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 13 October 2020. Ethel Gavin had a meteoric career: headmistress of the Shrewsbury high school in 1893 at the age of twenty-seven, she was appointed to Notting Hill high school at thirty-four (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Laity, Interview by Paul (10 November 2007). "A life in writing: Mary Beard, Britain's best-known classicist". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. ^ "she-works | Dr Alice Bunn". She Works | Careers Site for Women. Retrieved 30 November 2018.