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?

The Jessie Younghusband school is named after a local councillor from the 1960s.

Flora Stevenson primary school in Edinburgh is named after a female social reformer, and the Elsie Inglis maternity hospital is named after a trailblazing female medic.

Joyce Franklin, in Essex

I went to Alice Ottley when I was younger.

Ada Lovelace in Ealing

Helena Romanes senior school, Essex

Lady Hawkins School in Kington, Herefordshire was founded with money from the estate of Margaret, Lady Hawkins, widow of Sir John Hawkins, the Elizabethan naval commander, privateer & slave trader.
My FIL taught there (RE & History) for over 40 years. Jessica Raine is an old girl.
https://lhshereford.co.uk/school-history/

The Betty Layward primary in Stoke Newington is named after a local woman who was a school governor for many years.

Katharine Birbalsingh called her school Michaela - “It was named after Birbalsingh's former colleague Michaela Emanus, a West Indian teacher from Saint Lucia, who died of cancer in 2011.

The Hammond School in Chester named after Irene Hammond

Hannah More Primary school in Bristol

Another describes the pupils. The Red Maids' High School. (Oldest girls school in the UK, founded 1634).

Elinor Brent-Dyer’s short-lived Margaret Roper School!

That's the first one I thought of but you beat me to it.

Lady Margaret School
Elizabeth Woodville Primary
Dorothy Goodman School
Ruth Gorse Academy
Edith Cavell Primary
Jane Austen College

Judith Kerr primary was my first thought. Love that she has a school named after her.

Of the church schools near us there are more male than female school names - there's St Agatha's and Our Lady Immaculate but also St Matthew's, St Luke's, St John's, St Mark's (only just clocked we've got a full house of gospels) and Richard Challoner.

Lady Eleanor Holles was a daughter of the Earl of Clare. She didn’t actually leave her money to the school. She left it to her cousin Anne, with the instruction to do something charitable with it, and it was Anne who felt that a charitable girls school was the way to go. This is her.

There used to be an Amy Johnson primary school near me, but it has been swallowed up by an academy and the name has been changed now:

Amy Johnson CBE (born 1 July 1903 – disappeared 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s. In 1933, Katharine Hepburn's character in the film Christopher Strong was inspired by Johnson. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary.

There is also a St Philomena’s nearby:

Philomena also known as Saint Philomena or Philomena of Rome (c. 10 January 291 – c. 10 August 304) was a virgin martyr whose remains were discovered on May 24–25, 1802, in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Philomena is the patron saint of infants, babies, and youth,[3]and is known as "The Wonderworker".[4]

Dame Elizabeth Cadbury in Birmingham.

Lady Verney Grammar School (closed in the 90's) in Bucks - LV was a novelist and teh sister of Florence Nightingale.

In Northamptonshire

Elizabeth Woodville - key figure in the War of the roses, Queen at one point
Caroline Chisholm - humanitarian

St Margaret's in Edinburgh

The school moved from the orignal site and is now the Lilian Baylis Technology College on a new purpose built site down the road. The original buildings are now swanky flats.

There is one other school in Lambeth named after an actual woman (rather than a saint) which is Evelyn Grace Academy after an English painter.

Technically there is a third as Johanna school is named after Johanna Street which is named after Johanna Serres who was the graddaughter of a maritime artist but I don't think they were really thinking of her when they named the school after its address.

St Mary
StWinifred
St Werburgh
St Mary Redcliffe
Red Maids

St Catherines

Lady Margaret School, Hammersmith and Fulham.
Princess Frederica, Kensal Rise.