Guildford High School is an independent day school for girls that was founded in 1888. Approximately 1,000 girls between ages 4 to 18 attend the school from Guildford and its surrounding towns and villages. The school comprises a Junior School, Senior School and Sixth Form.

History

From the beginning, Guildford High School, founded by the Church Schools Company in 1788, was a progressive school. While some early girls' schools were designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of prospective governesses, Guildford High School sought to provide a feminine counterpart to the reformed public schools for boys. The current site on London Road was completed in 1893 and is still in use. During the post-World War II years, the school underwent rapid expansion. By the 1980s, student numbers had increased to over 600. Today the school has over 980 girls and is still part of the Company (now known as the United Church Schools Trust).

Campus

The school possesses a sports' centre off of the main campus. This includes an indoor swimming pool, gym, sports hall, fitness suite and social area. The main campus consists of the Senior school, the sixth form house (Morton House), Nightingale Road House, and the Junior school. Harper House was bought and added to the premises, also enlarging the gardens, in August 2011. The garden of the original Nightingale Road House were converted into a social area when the site was acquired in 2006.

Fees

As of 2018-19 fees for the school ranged from 4 to 5k for the Junior School pupils and 6k for those at the Senior School.

Notable former pupils

Lorna Arnold Lorna Margaret Arnold (; 7 December 1915 – 25 March 2014) was a British historian who wrote a number of books connected with the British nuclear weapons programmes. A graduate of Bedford College, London, she trained as a teacher at the C ...

, military historian *

Call Me Loop Georgia Buchanan (born 23 December 1990), known professionally as Call Me Loop, is an English singer and songwriter. Following the release of her debut single "Looking at You" in 2016, she has since independently released two extended plays, ''C ...

, singer and songwriter * Pamela Cooper, socialite * Anne Davies, newsreader * Ella Hickson, playwright *

Fiona Hodgson, Baroness Hodgson of Abinger Fiona Ferelith Hodgson, Baroness Hodgson of Abinger, (née Allom) is a Conservative politician and life peer. Biography She was educated at senior level at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, Berkshire and Guildford High School, Surrey. She was gr ...

, independent sector healthcare assessor *

Celia Imrie Celia Diana Savile Imrie (born 15 July 1952) is an English actress and author. She was described in 2003 as one of the most successful British actresses of recent decades. She is best known for her film roles, including the '' Bridget Jones'' f ...

, actress *

Clemmie Moodie Clementine Moodie (born 8 December 1981) is an English journalist,columnist and assistant editor at The Sun howbiz Early life While attending Guildford High School, she played lacrosse for England, South-East Region tennis and cricket for Surre ...

, journalist *

Julia Ormond Julia Karin Ormond (born 4 January 1965) is an English actress. She rose to prominence by appearing in ''The Baby of Mâcon'' (1993), ''Legends of the Fall'' (1994), '' First Knight'' (1995), '' Sabrina'' (1995), ''Smilla's Sense of Snow'' (199 ...

, actress * Claire Phillips, British portrait artist * Lucy Prebble, playwright *

Justine Roberts Justine Juliette Alice Roberts (born October 1967) is the founder and chief executive of British websites Mumsnet and Gransnet. Early life Roberts was educated at Guildford High School and at New College, Oxford, where she read PPE. Career Rob ...

, founder and chief executive of Mumsnet *

Louise Roe Louise Roe (born 3 December 1981) is an English television presenter, model, and fashion journalist. She is notable for hosting BBC's ''The Clothes Show'', E!'s ''Fashion Police'', E!'s ''Perfect Catch'', the MTV Europe Music Awards' Red Carpet ...

, television presenter, fashion journalist and model *

Annabel Tollman Annabel Tollman (March 7, 1974 – June 5, 2013) was a Belgian-British-American fashion journalist and editor of '' Interview'' magazine. Early life Tollman was born in Brussels, Belgium, where her family moved to London and later Western New ...

, fashion stylist *

Alexandra Wedgwood Alexandra Mary, Lady Wedgwood, (née Gordon Clark; born 30 July 1938) is an English architectural historian and expert on the work of Augustus Pugin. She is the patron of the Pugin Society and the former architectural archivist of the House of Lo ...

, architectural historian *

Julia Wilson-Dickson Julia Wilson-Dickson (2 August 1949 – 16 October 2015) was a British voice and dialect coach whose students included some of the best known actors in film and theater. Early life and education Wilson-Dickson was born in Brighton to Philip Wilso ...

, voice and dialect coach *

Misha Nonoo Misha Nonoo is a US-based British-Bahraini fashion designer, best known for her eponymous line of women's ready-to-wear. Early life Nonoo was born in Bahrain to an Iraqi father of Jewish descent and an English mother. Her family moved to Londo ...

, fashion designer

References

External links

School websiteProfile
on the ISC website *2011

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