Do you know any schools named after women?

[noblegiraffe]

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?

When I was growing up and the RC schools where o lived and attended to of these,

St Marys
St Cecilias
St Philomenas
Margeret Rope
The Ursuline

All south london/ Surrey borders, maybe 10 miles between them.

Queen Elizabeth, quite a few named after her. The one I know is a state school

We have a couple of 'our lady of' catholic schools near us, and a St Mary's, a St Catherine's, and St Anne's.

We also have a Mary Webb school, named after the novelist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Webb

Does George Eliot Academy count?

quite a few, but i'm not in the UK.

Judith Kerr and Beatrix Potter are lovely names for primary schools.

Leeds used to have St Agnes Stewart High School, named for a philanthropist who, among other things, promoted education in the city in the 19th century.

Winifred Holtby in Hull

There is a Joan of Arc secondary school in Rickmansworth, Herts.

Came on to say Judith Kerr and Beatrix Potter, but beaten to it.

I went to Mary Datchelor school in Camberwell, but it closed down in the 80s. There's also Henrietta Barnett in Hampstead Garden Suburb, and Lady Eleanor Holles in Hampton.

Lady Manners school in Bakewell.

A few local to me in Tower Hamlets:
Clara Grant (philanthropist and pioneer of eduction)
Elizabeth Selby (former head teacher)
Marion Richardson (author and pioneer of education)
Lansbury Lawrence (the Lawrence is Susan Lawrence, one of the first female Labour MPs who was local to the area)
Beatrice Tate (Labour politician, local mayor, war heroine)

Lady Boswells Primary School in Sevenoaks https://www.stnicholas-sevenoaks.org/lady-boswells/

Waldegrave School for Girls in Twickenham.

Burdett Coutts primary, named after Angela Burdett Coutts, an 18th century philanthropist.

Lady Manners secondary in Bakewell

There was an Amy Johnson school in Hull, but it closed

There must be lots of Victoria and Florence Nightingale schools

There's the Hannah Moore Primary School near where I work. She founded schools in the 18th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_More

Other than some saints, most schools locally are named for local areas/features rather than people.

Actually, it is Marion Richardson, I used to be a governor there back in the 1990s and she was the creator of a cursive/copperplate style of writing.

Then you have the various female Saint's names through to the Our Lady (Lourdes,Fatima, Walsingham, Carmel, etc) schools. Or Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, known as EGA locally in Camden.

There are actually far more than you suppose. However naming schools after a person is falling out of fashion for place specific names, because the authorities are concerned that some scandal may be discovered about named people.

Hannah More seems to be a bit of a mixed bag

"Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol, she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays. She became involved in the London literary elite and a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical. She joined a groupopposing the slave trade. In the 1790s she wrote Cheap Repository Tracts on moral, religious and political topics, to distribute to the literate poor (as a retort to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man). Meanwhile, she broadened her links with schools she and her sister Martha had founded in rural Somerset. These curbed their teaching of the poor, allowing limited reading but no writing. More was noted for her political conservatism, being described as an anti-feminist, a "counter-revolutionary", or a conservative feminist.[1]

I hope that Hannah More primary allows teaching children to write!

There are two in Northampton

Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster. Wareham St. Mary's CE Primary, and also St. Mary's RC in Swanage.

Flora Stevenson Primary in Edinburgh - she was a social reformer with a special interest in children.

Sybil Andrew’s in Bury St Edmunds

Ours are all named after places and house names are local hills. The local catholic schools are named after saints ( both men).

@noblegiraffe have you tried asking ChatGPT your question? It might speed up your research.

Waldegrave School in Twickenham is named after Frances, Lady Waldegrave, a notable 19th-century figure who resided at Strawberry Hill House, a historic Gothic Revival villa in the area. Lady Waldegrave was renowned for her influential role in Victorian society, particularly as a prominent political hostess who brought together leading politicians, artists, and thinkers of her time.

Dame Bradbury school is up the road.

"In 1522, Dame Johane Bradbury, widow of a former Lord Mayor of London and sister of John Leche, vicar of the parish from 1489 to 1521, re-established the old school by obtaining the necessary letters patent from Henry VIII."

I'm not doing research, and I would rather communicate with humans if I want to chat about schools named after women.

I'm enjoying looking up these women, some of whom seem quite formidable.