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?

I bet the same goes for road names.

I doubt there will be many new schools opening at the moment as the birth rate has declined across the country and a lot of primary schools are struggling with numbers. Two schools I know of near me have reduced to one class per year for the youngest years.

Dame Alice Owen’s in Potters Bar https://damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk/introduction/our-history/school-history/

Mary Hare school for deaf children. I'm unable to provide a link but she was remarkable woman.

There’s the Nell Gwynne Nursery School in Southwark - has always struck me as an odd choice to name a school after!

It is now called Welland Academy, but once upon a time, Stamford had Queen Eleanor School, named after Eleanor of Castile.

Ark Ayrton school in Portsmouth named after Hertha Ayrton (electrical engineer and mathematician)

The School of St Helen and St Katharine, Queen Elizabeth School, Queen Katherine's School, Queem Mary's School,

A nursery?!!

Lady Zia Werner is a Special needs school in Luton.

I think the family is connected to Luton Hoo house

Maria Goretti - patron saint for the protection of young girls and for victims of rape and sexual assault. She was murdered in 1902, when she was just 11 years old, fighting off the advances of a farmer.
It seems a rather odd choice for a primary school.

St. Hilda’s.

Hilda of Whitby (or Hild; c. 614 – 680) was a saint of the early Church in Britain. She was the founder and first abbess of the monastery at Whitby.

Vast majority of local schools, large rural county, are named after their location. (or if church schools, the church).

Lady Zia has just opened a new site as a 2nd school, the original one has been opened in the 1960's/70's.

Oh yes, that does ring a bell re Luton Hoo.

Lady Katherine Leveson.
Primary School in Knowle - and yes she was the founder. I went there in the 80s when it was tiny.

We were part of the1986 project theBBC ran called 'Domesday reloaded' - we all wrote about the history of the village. - it was supposed to be a modern version of the domesday book from 1086 - and was in the BBC computer using the first laser discs. The project was almost lost and then was available online on the BBC for ages but I cant find it now.

In 1674, Lady Katherine Leveson established a Foundation that would teach children and care for older people within a Christian context.

http://www.leveson.org.uk/

It happens…
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/06/school-named-after-prince-andrew-will-rebrand-to-avoid-controversial-ties

And sometimes even controversy where information comes out even though the person is deceased.
A school in the middle of the Baden Powell estate, decided not to go ahead with a name change to Baden Powell.
This school has kept the name. https://www.badenpowell-cardiff.co.uk

Yup

nellgwynn.southwark.sch.uk

Unlikely to have been Linda.

There are a number of schools named for that murderous knave Henry VIII (Chester, Canterbury, Ely and more) and a school in Sheffield named for Edward VII (not as bad, but no role model.)

Why? she may have been the King's mistress but she was an astonishing actress by all accounts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09vkd6b

The one I went to in 1980s, outside UK.

Dorothy Stringer

Informative!

Jessie Younghusband school in Chichester. She was a local councillor.

Ava Lovelace Ealing London