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[[File:Oxford High School - geograph.org.uk - 1049442.jpg|thumb|View of the old main entrance at the top of [[Charlbury Road]].]]
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'''Oxford High School''' is an [[Independent school (UK)|independent]] day school for girls in [[Oxford]], England. It was founded by the [[Girls' Day School Trust]] in 1875, making it the city's oldest girls' school.
'''Oxford High School''' is a [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private]] [[day school]] for girls in [[Oxford]], England. It was founded by the [[Girls' Day School Trust]] in 1875, making it the city's oldest girls' school.


==History==
==History==
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Oxford High School was opened on 3 November 1875, with twenty-nine girls and three teachers under headmistress [[Ada Benson]], at the Judge's Lodgings (St Giles' House) at 16 [[St Giles' Street, Oxford|St Giles']], central Oxford.<ref name=headington>[http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/stgiles/tour/east/16.htm St Giles' House (Judge's Lodgings), 16 St Giles' Street, Oxford] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715112858/http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/stgiles/tour/east/16.htm |date=15 July 2006 }} (where OHS was founded).</ref> It was the 9th school opened by the [[Girls' Day School Trust|Girls' Public Day School Company]]. Pupils were given a holiday when the [[Assize]] Judge visited. The school moved to 38 St Giles' in 1879 and then to 21 [[Banbury Road]] at the start of 1881, in a building designed by Sir [[Thomas Graham Jackson]], just south of the location of another Jackson building, the [[Acland Nursing Home]].<ref>Sherwood, Jennifer, and [[Nikolaus Pevsner|Pevsner, Nikolaus]], ''The Buildings of England: [[Oxfordshire]]'', [[Penguin Books]], 1974. {{ISBN|0-14-071045-0}}. Page 317.</ref> By this time, the headmistress was [[Matilda Ellen Bishop]].
Oxford High School was opened on 3 November 1875, with twenty-nine girls and three teachers under headmistress [[Ada Benson]], at the Judge's Lodgings (St Giles' House) at 16 [[St Giles' Street, Oxford|St Giles']], central Oxford.<ref name=headington>[http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/stgiles/tour/east/16.htm St Giles' House (Judge's Lodgings), 16 St Giles' Street, Oxford] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715112858/http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/stgiles/tour/east/16.htm |date=15 July 2006 }} (where OHS was founded).</ref> It was the 9th school opened by the [[Girls' Day School Trust|Girls' Public Day School Company]]. Pupils were given a holiday when the [[Assize]] Judge visited. The school moved to 38 St Giles' in 1879 and then to 21 [[Banbury Road]] at the start of 1881, in a building designed by Sir [[Thomas Graham Jackson]], just south of the location of another Jackson building, the [[Acland Nursing Home]].<ref>Sherwood, Jennifer, and [[Nikolaus Pevsner|Pevsner, Nikolaus]], ''The Buildings of England: [[Oxfordshire]]'', [[Penguin Books]], 1974. {{ISBN|0-14-071045-0}}. Page 317.</ref> By this time, the headmistress was [[Matilda Ellen Bishop]].


Rapid expansion led to the ultimate removal of the school to Belbroughton Road in 1957. It became a [[direct grant grammar school]] in 1945 under the [[Education Act 1944]] and chose to become independent in 1976 after the scheme was abolished. The junior section was opened in 1989 and further expanded in the 1990s to meet the growing demand. It absorbed two preparatory schools, Greycotes and The Squirrel, which meant girls could now be educated at Oxford High School from age 3 to [[Sixth Form]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/about-us/school-history/ |title=School History |access-date=18 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612190732/http://www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/about-us/school-history/ |archive-date=12 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Rapid expansion led to the ultimate removal of the school to Belbroughton Road in 1957. It became a [[direct grant grammar school]] in 1945 under the [[Education Act 1944]] and chose to become independent in 1976 after the scheme was abolished. It absorbed two preparatory schools, Greycotes and The Squirrel, which meant girls could now be educated at Oxford High School from age 3 to [[Sixth Form]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/about-us/school-history/ |title=School History |access-date=18 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612190732/http://www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/about-us/school-history/ |archive-date=12 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


==Academics==
==Academics==
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In 2006, the school became the first in [[Oxfordshire]] to make [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] a compulsory subject. Pupils will study it for at least a year accompanying French and can choose to either continue Mandarin or continue French.<ref>{{cite news|title=School pupils to learn Mandarin|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/696351.School_pupils_to_learn_mandarin/|work=[[Oxford Mail]]|date=28 February 2008}}</ref>
In 2006, the school became the first in [[Oxfordshire]] to make [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] a compulsory subject. Pupils will study it for at least a year accompanying French and can choose to either continue Mandarin or continue French.<ref>{{cite news|title=School pupils to learn Mandarin|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/696351.School_pupils_to_learn_mandarin/|work=[[Oxford Mail]]|date=28 February 2008}}</ref>

==Facilities==
The school does not have its own boarding programme.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oxfordhigh.gdst.net/admissions/overseas/|title=
Overseas Applicants|publisher=Oxford High School|access-date=2024-09-18}}</ref>


==Houses==
==Houses==
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*[[Elaine Kaye]] 1972–1981
*[[Elaine Kaye]] 1972–1981
*[[Joan Townsend]] 1981–1996
*[[Joan Townsend]] 1981–1996
*[[Felicity Lusk]] 1997–2010<ref>{{cite news|title=No job for the boys as Abingdon School picks woman head|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6930595.ece|work=[[The Times]]|date=25 November 2009}}</ref>
*[[Felicity Lusk]] 1997–2010<ref>{{cite news|title=No job for the boys as Abingdon School picks woman head|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6930595.ece|work=[[The Times]]|date=25 November 2009}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
*[[Judith Carlisle]] 2011–2016<ref>{{cite news|title=New Head for Oxford High School|url=http://www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/news/year/2009-10/new-head.htm|publisher=oxfordhigh.gdst.net|access-date=23 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723133841/http://www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/news/year/2009-10/new-head.htm|archive-date=23 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Judith Carlisle]] 2011–2016<ref>{{cite news|title=New Head for Oxford High School|url=http://www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/news/year/2009-10/new-head.htm|publisher=oxfordhigh.gdst.net|access-date=23 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723133841/http://www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/news/year/2009-10/new-head.htm|archive-date=23 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Philip Hills]] 2017–2019<ref>{{cite news|title=Introducing the New Head for Oxford High School|url=http://oxfordhigh.gdst.net/new-head-oxford-high-school/|publisher=oxfordhigh.gdst.net|date=7 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Male headteacher is historic first for city girls' school | newspaper=[[Oxford Times]] | page=15 | date=14 September 2017}}</ref>
*[[Philip Hills]] 2017–2019<ref>{{cite news|title=Introducing the New Head for Oxford High School|url=http://oxfordhigh.gdst.net/new-head-oxford-high-school/|publisher=oxfordhigh.gdst.net|date=7 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Male headteacher is historic first for city girls' school | newspaper=[[Oxford Times]] | page=15 | date=14 September 2017}}</ref>
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* [[Josephine Barnes]] (1912–1999), first woman President British Medical Association (BMA)
* [[Josephine Barnes]] (1912–1999), first woman President British Medical Association (BMA)
* [[Ursula Bethell]] (1874–1945), New Zealand poet and social worker
* [[Ursula Bethell]] (1874–1945), New Zealand poet and social worker
* [[Vicky Bowman]], former British diplomat
* [[Emma Bridgewater]], potter
* [[Emma Bridgewater]], potter
* [[Jacintha Buddicom]], poet and childhood friend of George Orwell
* [[Jacintha Buddicom]], poet and childhood friend of George Orwell
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* [[Catherine Conybeare]], academic and philologist
* [[Catherine Conybeare]], academic and philologist
* [[Charithra Chandran]], actress
* [[Charithra Chandran]], actress
* [[Gail Davey]], professor of epidemiology
* [[Dame Cressida Dick]] (b. 1960), former [[Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis|Commissioner]] of the [[Metropolitan Police]]
* [[Dame Cressida Dick]] (b. 1960), former [[Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis|Commissioner]] of the [[Metropolitan Police]]
* [[Sian Edwards]], conductor
* [[Sian Edwards]], conductor
* [[Sos Eltis]], author and academic
* [[Rebecca Flemming]], classicist
* [[Amelia Fletcher]] economist, and indie band singer
* [[Martha Lane Fox]], entrepreneur lastminute.com<ref>{{cite news|title=Famous Faces|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/2010/08/24/oxfordshire_heritage/8345102.Famous_Faces/|work=[[Oxford Mail]]|date=24 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[Martha Lane Fox]], entrepreneur lastminute.com<ref>{{cite news|title=Famous Faces|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/2010/08/24/oxfordshire_heritage/8345102.Famous_Faces/|work=[[Oxford Mail]]|date=24 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[Mel Giedroyc]], actress/comedian
* [[Mel Giedroyc]], actress/comedian
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* [[Emily Gowers]], Professor of Latin literature at the University of Cambridge
* [[Emily Gowers]], Professor of Latin literature at the University of Cambridge
* [[Sophie Grigson]], cookery TV/writer
* [[Sophie Grigson]], cookery TV/writer
* Dame [[Pippa Harris]], Film Producer
* [[Ethel Hatch]], British painter
* [[Ethel Hatch]], British painter
* [[Mary Hockaday]], journalist
* [[Dame Margaret Hodge]], Labour MP and minister
* [[Dame Margaret Hodge]], Labour MP and minister
* [[Verena Holmes|Verena Winifred Holmes]], engineer
* [[Verena Holmes|Verena Winifred Holmes]], engineer
* [[Harriet Hunt]], chess International Master
* [[Harriet Hunt]], chess International Master
* [[Elizabeth Irving]], actress and founder of the [[Keep Britain Tidy]] Campaign
* [[Elizabeth Irving]], actress and founder of the [[Keep Britain Tidy]] Campaign
* [[Elizabeth Jennings]] (1926–2001), poet
* [[Elizabeth Jennings (poet)|Elizabeth Jennings]] (1926–2001), poet
* [[Ludmilla Jordanova]], Professor of Modern History at the [[King's College London]]
* [[Ludmilla Jordanova]], Professor of Modern History at the [[King's College London]]
* [[Frances Kirwan]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} mathematician
* [[Frances Kirwan]], mathematician
* [[Susan Lea (scientist)|Susan Lea]] {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FMedSci}} Professor at the University of Oxford<ref name=leaswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon| surname = Lea | othernames = Prof. Susan Mary | id = U290639 | year = 2018 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U290639}}</ref>
* [[Susan Lea (scientist)|Susan Lea]] Professor at the University of Oxford<ref name=leaswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Lea, Prof. Susan Mary | id = U290639 | year = 2018 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U290639}}</ref>
* [[Anna Lapwood]], Director of Music at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] and television/radio presenter
* [[Anna Lapwood]], Director of Music at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] and television/radio presenter
* [[Dame Rose Macaulay]], novelist
* [[Dame Rose Macaulay]], novelist
* [[Serena Mackesy]], journalist and author
* [[Miriam Margolyes]], (b. 1941), actress<ref>{{cite news|title=Star attends Oxford High School 50-year reunion|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/2009/10/05/Oxford+news+%28om_oxfordnews%29/4665203.Star_attends_Oxford_High_School_50_year_reunion/|work=[[Oxford Mail]]|date=5 October 2009}}</ref>
* [[Miriam Margolyes]], (b. 1941), actress<ref>{{cite news|title=Star attends Oxford High School 50-year reunion|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/2009/10/05/Oxford+news+%28om_oxfordnews%29/4665203.Star_attends_Oxford_High_School_50_year_reunion/|work=[[Oxford Mail]]|date=5 October 2009}}</ref>
* [[Ghislaine Maxwell]], (junior section, left age 9), socialite and convicted child sex trafficker
* [[Ghislaine Maxwell]], (junior section, left age 9), socialite and convicted child sex trafficker
* [[Charlotte Mendelson]] (b. 1972), novelist
* [[Charlotte Mendelson]] (b. 1972), novelist
* [[Anne Mills]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}}, [[health economics|health economist]]
* [[Kate Ho]], (b. 1972), economist
* [[Anne Mills]], [[health economics|health economist]]
* [[Teresa Morgan]], academic
* [[Teresa Morgan]], academic
* [[Eleanor Oldroyd]], BBC Radio Sport presenter
* [[Eleanor Oldroyd]], BBC Radio Sport presenter
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* [[Eileen Power]] (1889–1940), economic historian and medievalist
* [[Eileen Power]] (1889–1940), economic historian and medievalist
* [[Rhoda Power]] (1890–1957), broadcaster and children's writer
* [[Rhoda Power]] (1890–1957), broadcaster and children's writer
* [[Dame Maggie Smith]], double Oscar-winning actress, seven times BAFTA Film Awards winner, Triple Crown of Acting
* [[Liz Shore]], former deputy chief medical officer
* [[Dame Maggie Smith]] (1934–2024), double Oscar-winning actress, seven times BAFTA Film Awards winner, Triple Crown of Acting
* [[Barbara Strachey]] (1912–1999), broadcaster and writer
* [[Barbara Strachey]] (1912–1999), broadcaster and writer
* [[Catherine Tucker]], American economist
* [[Catherine Tucker]], American economist
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[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1875]]
[[Category:Schools in Oxford]]
[[Category:Schools in Oxford]]
[[Category:Independent schools in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Private schools in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Schools of the Girls' Day School Trust]]
[[Category:Schools of the Girls' Day School Trust]]
[[Category:1875 establishments in England]]
[[Category:1875 establishments in England]]

Latest revision as of 16:00, 6 January 2025

Oxford High School GDST
Address
Map
Belbroughton Road

Oxford
,
Oxfordshire
,
OX2 6XA

England
Information
TypePrivate day school
MottoLatin: Ad Lucem
(Toward the light)
Established1875
Local authorityOxfordshire
Department for Education URN123310 Tables
Chairman of governorsKatherine Haynes
HeadmistressMarina Gardiner Legge
Staff120
GenderGirls
Age4 to 18
Enrolment952
Websitehttp://www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/
View of the old main entrance at the top of Charlbury Road.

Oxford High School is a private day school for girls in Oxford, England. It was founded by the Girls' Day School Trust in 1875, making it the city's oldest girls' school.

History

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View on Banbury Road with No. 21 on the right, next to the current Oxford University Computing Services.

Oxford High School was opened on 3 November 1875, with twenty-nine girls and three teachers under headmistress Ada Benson, at the Judge's Lodgings (St Giles' House) at 16 St Giles', central Oxford.[1] It was the 9th school opened by the Girls' Public Day School Company. Pupils were given a holiday when the Assize Judge visited. The school moved to 38 St Giles' in 1879 and then to 21 Banbury Road at the start of 1881, in a building designed by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, just south of the location of another Jackson building, the Acland Nursing Home.[2] By this time, the headmistress was Matilda Ellen Bishop.

Rapid expansion led to the ultimate removal of the school to Belbroughton Road in 1957. It became a direct grant grammar school in 1945 under the Education Act 1944 and chose to become independent in 1976 after the scheme was abolished. It absorbed two preparatory schools, Greycotes and The Squirrel, which meant girls could now be educated at Oxford High School from age 3 to Sixth Form.[3]

Academics

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Oxford High School regularly ranks as one of the country's highest achieving independent schools in terms of examination results.[4][5] The school was ranked first in the South East in a Sunday Times survey based on exam results and "value for money".[6] In the 2011 examinations it was ranked amongst the top 20 independent schools nationwide for GCSE results and the best performing girls' school in the A Levels.[7][8]

In 2006, the school became the first in Oxfordshire to make Mandarin a compulsory subject. Pupils will study it for at least a year accompanying French and can choose to either continue Mandarin or continue French.[9]

Facilities

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The school does not have its own boarding programme.[10]

Houses

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The girls in the senior school are divided into four houses, each named after an Ancient Greek deity:

Headteachers

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Notable former pupils

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See also: Category:People educated at Oxford High School, England
Lucy Gordon

References

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  1. ^ St Giles' House (Judge's Lodgings), 16 St Giles' Street, Oxford Archived 15 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine (where OHS was founded).
  2. ^ Sherwood, Jennifer, and Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, Penguin Books, 1974. ISBN 0-14-071045-0. Page 317.
  3. ^ "School History". Archived from the original on 12 June 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  4. ^ "Private schools make top grade". Oxford Mail. 28 August 2001.
  5. ^ "Oxford High School's A-Level results – 2008 – another stunning year". Oxford Mail. 22 September 2008.
  6. ^ "Oxford High named top of class in south east". Oxford Mail. 22 October 2001.
  7. ^ "New GCSE results show the difference in how youngsters improve at secondary school". Oxford Mail. 26 January 2012.
  8. ^ "Oxford schools top the league tables". Cherwell. 2 September 2011.
  9. ^ "School pupils to learn Mandarin". Oxford Mail. 28 February 2008.
  10. ^ "Overseas Applicants". Oxford High School. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  11. ^ "Bishop, Matilda Ellen (1842–1913), college head". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48431. Retrieved 20 September 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ^ "Soulsby, Lucy Helen Muriel (1856–1927), headmistress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48573. Retrieved 20 September 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ^ "Brown, William Haig (1823–1907), headmaster headmistress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33634. Retrieved 26 July 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  14. ^ "No job for the boys as Abingdon School picks woman head". The Times. 25 November 2009.[dead link‍]
  15. ^ "New Head for Oxford High School". oxfordhigh.gdst.net. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  16. ^ "Introducing the New Head for Oxford High School". oxfordhigh.gdst.net. 7 September 2017.
  17. ^ "Male headteacher is historic first for city girls' school". Oxford Times. 14 September 2017. p. 15.
  18. ^ "Famous Faces". Oxford Mail. 24 August 2010.
  19. ^ Anon (2018). "Lea, Prof. Susan Mary". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U290639. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  20. ^ "Star attends Oxford High School 50-year reunion". Oxford Mail. 5 October 2009.
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