Do you know any schools named after women?

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Schools are far more likely to be named after men than women.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/multi-academy-trusts-6-times-more-likely-to-be-named-after-men-than-women/

I'm wondering which women schools are named after. Is it vast majority Notre Dames and Our Ladys? I can think of a few schools that are named after famous men who weren't saints or bishops or kings.

Any female historical gems near you?

Mary Erskine's, Edinburgh

Caroline Haslett Primary School, Milton Keynes

Jane lane school
lady Jane grey

Mary Datchelor School in South London

St. Julie’s in Liverpool.

https://www.stjulies.org.uk/our-foundress.html

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon[1] and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors.[2] She was the first female dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain.

Blimey, she was some woman...

But you’re right - the proportion named after women don’t reflect their impact on education.

Lady Lumley's in Pickering
St Winifred's - who did the hit song Grandma We Love You
QUEGS in Wakefield
Queen Ethelbergs in York
St Claires Enid Blyton

Came on to say these!

Mary Hare school in Newbury

Dame Alice Owen
Katherine Warrington

I can't actually find out anything about Lady Eleanor Holles apart from the fact that she paid for the school to be founded in her will. I guess paying for it is a good way to get a school named after you though!

This is really sweet, perfect for a primary school.

Is Lilian Baylis still going in Lambeth or has it been swallowed into an academy chain?

Does George Eliot count??

The Michaela School, Wembley named after languages teacher Michaela Emanus.

Also one in Norwich where she was from. She was a nurse and executed by the Germans in WWI for helping soldiers escape.

There's a Hannah More primary in Bristol.

Must be a few named after various Queens?

I actually can't think of many state schools named after people (except saints)

Ellen Wilkinson (there was one in Manchester which is now closed l think and there’s still one in London)

Ada Lovelace

Judith Kerr primary in Herne Hill Southwark

Closed

St Winefride's - the original, because it's in the town with the magic spring, where she was beheaded then healed. Not the one with the song.

St Werburgh?

Queen Edith's in Cambridge. She was married to Edward the Confessor and was an accomplished linguist, musician, mathmatician and diplomat, skilled in weaving and embroidery. She was credited with revamping her husband's public image and smartening him up. She outlived her husband by some years and us buried beside him in Westminster Abbey. William the Conquerer arranged her funeral.