Queen Mary's High School, situated on Upper Forster Street, just outside
Walsall
Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located ...
town centre, is an all-female grammar school, with entry in Year 7 decided by the
11+ and entry into the Sixth Form decided by GCSE results. It is twinned with
Queen Mary's Grammar School, and like the Grammar School is part of the Queen Mary's Foundation.
The main body of the school is a
girls’ school, but the Sixth Form is coeducational.
The school gained an outstanding level in the Ofsted report when it was last inspected in 2021.
The school was a
Language College and historically required students to study two languages to GCSE standard.
Class sizes in the lower school are currently around 30 girls. Sixth-form classes have a minimum of about 8 students and a maximum of 25.
The school is divided into houses named after famous 19th-century female authors – Austen (after
Jane Austen
Jane Austen ( ; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for #List of works, her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century ...
), Bronte (after
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel, ''Wuthering Heights''. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte and Anne Brontà ...
), Eliot (after
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...
) and Shelley (after
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( , ; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel ''Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an History of science fiction# ...
), the latter being a new house in the 2012/13 academic year. Each house has a member of staff in charge of it, a captain from Year 13 (upper sixth form) and a vice-captain from Year 12 (lower sixth form).
Alumni of the school include
Meera Syal.
Notable staff
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Barbara Foxley was head here
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References
External links
School website
history of the school
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Educational institutions established in 1893
Academies in Walsall
Grammar schools in Walsall
Girls' schools in the West Midlands (county)
1893 establishments in England