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Shrewsbury High School, Shropshire

Coordinates: 52°42′18″N 2°45′25″W / 52.705°N 2.757°W / 52.705; -2.757
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This article is about an independent girls school; not to be confused with Shrewsbury School or Shrewsbury Academy.

Shrewsbury High School
Location
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32 Town Walls

Shrewsbury
,
Shropshire
,
SY1 1TN

England

52°42′18″N 2°45′25″W / 52.705°N 2.757°W / 52.705; -2.757
Information
TypePrivate day school
Established1885
Local authority
Shropshire
Head
Darren 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.[citation needed] The junior department has moved to the Town Walls campus as an all-through all-girls school from ages 4 to 18.

The senior department is on Town Walls, by the banks of the River Severn.

Notable former pupils

Notes and references

  1. ↑ History
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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, Wikipedia Library access 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.
  5. ↑ Green, Robert (8 August 2013). A Thorn in Their Side - Hilda Murrell Threatened Britain's Nuclear State. She Was Brutally Murdered. This is the True Story of Her Shocking Death. Kings Road Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78219-428-6. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
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