Girls' Schools Association
The Girls' Schools Association is a professional association of the heads of independent girls' schools. It is a constituent member of the Independent Schools Council.
History
The GSA can trace its history back to the Association of Headmistresses which was founded in 1874. Its president in 1964–66, Diana Reader Harris, ensured that it made a strong and considered response to the influential Plowden Report. It was established in 1974 following the amalgamation of two of the AHM's sub-groups: the Association of Heads of Girls' boarding Schools and the Association of Independent and Direct Grant Schools. It moved from London to new headquarters in Leicester in 1984, where it shared offices with the Association of School and College Leaders before moving to its current office, still in Leicester.Structure
The GSA is a member-led organisation providing mutual professional support and representing the views of practising heads of independent girls' schools. A series of member-led committees report to a Council of Heads which is led by Officers ie the President, Vice-President, the President-Elect and Treasurer. Each presidential position is usually held by a practising Head for one calendar year.Since 1994 the GSA has been supported by a professional secretariat which is currently led by Chief Executive Vivienne Durham.
Member schools
Below is a list of GSA member schools. Some members are the girls' sections of "Diamond Schools".United Kingdom
England
- Abbot's Hill School
- Adcote School for Girls
- Alderley Edge School for Girls
- Badminton School
- Bedford Girls' School
- Benenden School
- Berkhamsted School
- Blackheath High School
- Bolton School Girls' Division
- Brighton Girls
- Bromley High School
- Bruton School for Girls
- Burgess Hill School
- Bury Grammar School
- Channing School
- Cheltenham Ladies' College
- Cobham Hall School
- Cranford House School
- Croydon High School
- Derby High School
- Dodderhill School
- Downe House
- Durham High School for Girls
- Edgbaston High School for Girls
- Farlington School
- Farnborough Hill
- Francis Holland School Regent's Park
- Francis Holland School Sloane Square
- Gateways School
- Glendower Preparatory School
- Harrogate Ladies' College
- Headington School
- Heathfield School, Ascot
- Hethersett Old Hall School
- Ipswich High School
- James Allen's Girls' School
- Kent College, Pembury
- King Edward VI High School for Girls
- The King's High, Warwick
- Leicester High School for Girls
- Leweston School
- Loughborough High School
- Malvern St James
- Manchester High School for Girls
- Manor House School
- Marymount International School
- Merchant Taylors' School for Girls
- Moira House Girls' School
- Moreton Hall School
- Newcastle High School
- New Hall School
- North London Collegiate School
- Northampton High School
- Northwood College
- Norwich High School for Girls
- Notre Dame Senior School
- Notting Hill & Ealing High
- Nottingham Girls' High School
- Old Palace of John Whitgift School
- Oxford High School
- Palmers Green High School
- Pipers Corner School
- Portsmouth High School
- Prior's Field School
- Princess Helena College
- Putney High School
- Queen Anne's School, Caversham
- Queen Margaret's School, York
- Queen Mary's School, Thirsk
- Queen's College, London
- Queen's Gate School
- Queenswood School
- Redland High School for Girls
- Roedean School
- Royal Masonic School for Girls
- Rye St Antony School
- Saint Martin's
- School of St Helen & St Katharine
- Sheffield High School
- Sherborne Girls
- Shrewsbury High School
- Sir William Perkins's School
- South Hampstead High School
- Stephen Perse Foundation School
- St Albans High School
- St Catherine's School, Bramley
- St Catherine's School, Twickenham
- St Dominic's High School for Girls
- St Dominic's Priory School
- St Francis' College
- St Gabriel's School
- St George's School, Ascot
- St Helen's School
- St James Senior Girls' School
- St Leonards-Mayfield School
- St Margaret's School, Bushey
- St Margaret's School, Hampstead
- St Martha's Senior School
- St Mary's School Ascot
- St Mary's School, Calne
- St Mary's School, Cambridge
- St Mary's School, Colchester
- St Mary's School, Shaftesbury
- St Mary's School, Worcester
- St Nicholas' School
- St Paul's Girls' School
- St Swithun's School
- St Teresa's School Effingham
- Stamford High School
- Stonar School
- Streatham & Clapham High School
- Surbiton High School
- Sutton High School
- Sydenham High School
- Talbot Heath School
- Teesside High School
- The Abbey School, Reading
- The Brigidine School
- The Godolphin and Latymer School
- The Godolphin School
- The Grammar School at Leeds
- The Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
- The Kingsley School
- The Lady Eleanor Holles School
- The Marist Senior School
- The Maynard School
- The Mount School, York
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School
- The Queen's School, Chester
- The Red Maids' School
- The Royal High School Bath
- The Royal School Hampstead
- The Royal School Haslemere
- Tormead School
- Truro High School
- Tudor Hall
- Wakefield Girls' High School
- Walthamstow Hall
- Westfield School
- Westholme School
- Westonbirt
- Wimbledon High School
- Withington Girls' School
- Woldingham School
- Wychwood School
- Wycombe Abbey School
- Wykeham House School
Scotland
- Kilgraston School
- Mary Erskine School, Edinburgh
- St George's School, Edinburgh
- St Margaret's School for Girls, Aberdeen
Wales
- Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls
- Howell's School, Llandaff GDST
Guernsey
- The Ladies' College
Overseas members
- San Silvestre School, Peru
- Westlake Girls High School, New Zealand
- Latifa School for Girls, United Arab Emirates
- , India
Affiliate members
- Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
- Birkenhead High School GDST
- Dr Challoner's High School
- Colston's Girls' School
- Ursuline Preparatory School
Former members
- Amberfield School – closed in October 2011
- Casterton School – merged with Sedbergh School in 2013
- Lodge School – closed in 2010
- Dame Alice Harpur School and Bedford High School – merged to become Bedford Girls' School in 2011 and 2012
- Peterborough High School – became coeducational in 2010 and renamed The Peterborough School
- St Joseph's Convent School – became coeducational in 2010 and renamed St Joseph's College
- St Margaret's School, Edinburgh – closed in June 2010