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Oxford High School is a private day school for girls in Oxford, England. It was founded by the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) in 1875, making it the City of Oxford's oldest girls'…
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Oxford High School is a private day school for girls in Oxford, England. It was founded by the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) in 1875, making it the City of Oxford's oldest girls' school.
Oxford High School is a private day school for girls in Oxford, England. It was founded by the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) in 1875, making it the City of Oxford's oldest girls' school.
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', Oxford. 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 Thomas Graham Jackson, just south of the location of another Jackson building, the Acland Nursing Home. 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.
Oxford High School regularly ranks as one of the country's highest achieving independent schools in terms of examination results. The school was ranked first in the South East in a Sunday Times survey based on exam results and "value for money". 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.
In 2006, the school became the first in Oxfordshire to make Mandarin a compulsory subject. Pupils study it for at least a year, alongside French, and can choose to either continue Mandarin or continue French.
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