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You want the best for your daughter. That’s why choosing a school is such a big decision.

The Girls’ Day School Trust is made up of 25 all girls’ schools, including 23 independent schools and two academies – the largest group of its kind in the UK. We are committed to providing an exceptional education and to ensuring GDST schools are where girls learn without limits.

Scroll down to find out how to apply and learn more about GDST fees & scholarships, bursaries, school sizes, the headteachers.

Belvedere Academy

Liverpool
belvedere academy

Described by The Good Schools Guide as ‘the school everyone wants their daughter to go to in Liverpool’, Belvedere Academy is an ‘outstanding’ all-ability secondary school where students enjoy a huge range of educational and extra-curricular opportunities.

  • Address:
    17 Belvidere Road Princes Park, Liverpool L8 3TF
  • Age range:
    11 - 19 years
  • Size:
    990 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Julie Taylor
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  • Address:
    17 Belvidere Road Princes Park, Liverpool L8 3TF
  • Age range:
    11 - 19 years
  • Size:
    990 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Julie Taylor
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Birkenhead High School Academy

Wirral
Birkenhead high school

With a school on its site for more than a century now, Birkenhead High School Academy has created a vibrant, future-focused learning community for junior and senior pupils, built on a strong foundation of core traditional values.

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Blackheath High School

London
Blackheath High School

With its ethos ‘where girls boldly go’ Blackheath High School inspires girls to think big and love learning. With £18 million invested in new buildings and facilities, it offers a unique learning environment in state-of-the-art accommodation between beautiful Royal Greenwich Park and Blackheath Village.

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Brighton Girls

Brighton
brighton girls gdst

True to its roots as a ‘disruptor’ in education, Brighton Girls remains as progressive in its thinking today. Located in the heart of creative Brighton, it encourages girls to be kind, bold, and to go out and change the world.

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Bromley High School

London
bromley school

Bromley High School has been offering an exceptional education to girls from the age of three upwards, since 1883. Its dedicated teachers nurture a unique spirit of enquiry and an independence of mind, so that every child can excel.

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Croydon High School

London
Croydon High School

With its mantra ‘Every Girl, Every Day’, Croydon High School strives for something new and memorable for its pupils in every learning experience. Girls are encouraged to be themselves and work with their teachers in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

  • Address:
    Old Farleigh Road Selsdon, Croydon South Croydon CR2 8YB
  • Age range:
    3 - 18 years
  • Size:
    745 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Annabel Davies
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  • Address:
    Old Farleigh Road Selsdon, Croydon South Croydon CR2 8YB
  • Age range:
    3 - 18 years
  • Size:
    745 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Annabel Davies
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Howell’s School, Llandaff

Cardiff
howells llandaff

One of Wales’s leading independents, Howell’s School, Llandaff is a well-rounded all-through school. On the edge of green, expansive parkland, with a warm and nurturing culture, it provides the perfect environment for students to grow into their full potential.

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Kensington Prep School

London
Kensington Prep School

Kensington Prep School is a trailblazing school for girls aged 4-11, in Fulham. Its ethos, ‘Growing Great Minds’, is embodied in highly innovative learning experiences, inspiring pupils go on to some of the best senior schools in London and beyond.

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Newcastle High School for Girls

Newcastle
newcastle high school for girls

From the age of three, Newcastle High School girls are introduced to the wonders of the world, igniting a passion for learning and an unshakeable self-belief that, by Sixth Form, will empower them to take on the world.

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Northampton High School

Northampton
northampton gdst

Northampton High School takes the concept of personalised education to the next level. Everything it does is tailored to the individual, giving each and every pupil the inspiration and support they need to find and follow their dreams.

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Northwood College for Girls

London
Northwood College for Girls

Northwood College is a warm family community, with happy, balanced and capable girls at its heart. Its framework for successful learning and optimal educational outcomes empowers every girl, individually, to develop and embrace her unique intellectual and creative talents.

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Norwich High School for Girls

Norwich
Norwich High School for Girls

Covering some 14 acres, the indoor and outdoor spaces at Norwich High School have been meticulously designed with girls’ needs in mind. Academic success and attainment go hand-in-hand with personal development, enabling girls to grow into resilient, aspirational young women.

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Notting Hill & Ealing High School

London
notting hill & ealing school

One of London’s most successful girls’ schools, with a long tradition of academic and creative excellence, Notting Hill & Ealing High School develops grounded, confident students, proud of their school and keen to make a positive difference in the world.

  • Address:
    2 Cleveland Road London W13 8AX
  • Age range:
    4 - 18 years
  • Size:
    908 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Matthew Shoults
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  • Address:
    2 Cleveland Road London W13 8AX
  • Age range:
    4 - 18 years
  • Size:
    908 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Matthew Shoults
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Nottingham Girls’ High School

Nottingham
Nottingham Girls’ High School

As a top 100 school, Nottingham Girls’ dynamic approach and flexible curriculum makes for a ‘progressive, creative, different’ educational environment. It is a city school – and proud of it – with an energy that fires pupils’ imaginations and unlocks their passions.

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Oxford High School

Oxford
Oxford High School

Oxford’s oldest girls’ school, Oxford High School leads the way in educating high-achieving girls who have the drive and determination to change the world. Every girl is encouraged to challenge, to develop agility of thought and find her own voice.

  • Address:
    Belbroughton Road Oxford OX2 6XA
  • Age range:
    4 - 18 years
  • Size:
    833 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Marina Gardiner Legge
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  • Address:
    Belbroughton Road Oxford OX2 6XA
  • Age range:
    4 - 18 years
  • Size:
    833 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Marina Gardiner Legge
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Portsmouth High School

Portsmouth
Portsmouth High School

Portsmouth High School, just minutes from the sea in Southsea, offers unrivalled opportunities at both its prep and senior schools. With academic performance alongside a strong focus on wellbeing, Portsmouth High enables pupils to become the best version of themselves.

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Putney High School

London
Putney High School

Academically high-achieving and rounded, Putney High School is as down-to-earth as it is dynamic. Its ‘modern scholarship’ ethos makes learning challenging, fun and relevant, with innovative programmes exploring everything from the Biophilic Classroom, to entrepreneurship and designing a sustainable future.

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Royal High School Bath

Bath
Royal High School Bath

Providing an outstanding, girl-centred education, Royal High School Bath is a day and boarding school for ages 3-18. It boasts exceptional academic results, and is the only school in Bath to offer a choice of A Level or IB at Sixth Form.

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Sheffield Girls’

Sheffield
sheffield girls school

Recently crowned ‘Independent Secondary School of The Year in the North’, Sheffield Girls’ is located in leafy Yorkshire. Its mission –‘teaching her everything so she can be anything’ – provides an all-round education from Reception to Sixth Form.

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Shrewsbury High School

Shrewsbury
shrewsbury girls school

Educating girls since 1885, Shrewsbury High School is literally built into the Town Walls. It is the only all-through, all-girls’ school in Shropshire, and offers exceptional teaching tailored to the way girls learn, encouraging them to experiment and be brave.

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South Hampstead High School

London
South Hampstead High School GDST

A buzzing academic powerhouse since 1876, South Hampstead is amongst the country’s leading schools. With kindness and curiosity at its core, its goal is to ensure that pupils thrive intellectually and personally, and leave ready to make their mark on the world.

  • Address:
    3 Maresfield Gardens London NW3 5SS
  • Age range:
    4 - 18 years
  • Size:
    943 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Anna Paul
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  • Address:
    3 Maresfield Gardens London NW3 5SS
  • Age range:
    4 - 18 years
  • Size:
    943 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Anna Paul
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Streatham & Clapham High School

London
Streatham & Clapham GDST

Streatham & Clapham offers a diverse community in which every girl’s unique strengths are celebrated and developed. Shaping girls’ education since 1887, Streatham & Clapham provides first-rate facilities overlooking extensive parkland in one of London’s most vibrant urban areas.

  • Address:
    42 Abbotswood Road London SW16 1AW
  • Age range:
    3 - 18 years
  • Size:
    888 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Mrs Cathy Ellott
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  • Address:
    42 Abbotswood Road London SW16 1AW
  • Age range:
    3 - 18 years
  • Size:
    888 pupils
  • Boarding type:
    Day only (no boarding)
  • Headteacher:
    Mrs Cathy Ellott
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Sutton High School

London
sutton girls school

Girls excel at Sutton High School because they are valued as individuals. Empowering pupils to embrace challenge and love learning, Sutton guides every ‘fiercely independent’ girl towards her own success, ensuring that she leaves confident, and ready to forge her own path.

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Sydenham High School

London
Sydenham High School

Sydenham High School is a high-achieving school on a smaller scale, where every girl is visible, valued and supported. With their independent minds, courage and respect for themselves and others, its pupils are the embodiment of the school’s motto, ‘Fear Nothing’.

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Wimbledon High School

London
girls school in Wimbledon

Wimbledon High School encourages edgy thinking, risk-taking and lots of fun. Proud to do things a little differently, Wimbledon’s mission is to prepare students for an unknown future where intellectual agility, creativity and problem-solving will be their superpowers.

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A family of schools

23 independent schools and two academies in England and Wales