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?

Flora Stevenson's school in Edinburgh

I was just reading about Queen Emma from upthread who I knew nothing about and I now know that she was married to Ethelred the Unready, who is the son of Elfrida mentioned above.

What I've really learned is that naming your kids a name starting with E was really popular back then.

Queen Mary’s in Walsall

Queen Katherine Academy in Peterborough.

Named for Katherine of Aragorn (first wife of Henry VIII) who is buried in Peterborough cathedral

Mary Bassett, Leighton Buzzard

Jenny Hammond Primary School In Waltham Forest. No idea who she was though.

Amy Johnson - Hull, has been knocked down now

Queen Anne's, Caversham
Mrs Ethelston's in Lyme Regis

There are others that have closed or lost their name on merger with a boys school. Eg Alice Ottley in Worcester.

There's at least one fictional school mentioned here, so I'll add the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, modelled on Muriel Spark's own alma mater, James Gillespie's, which I briefly attended as a 5-year-old.

Dimsie went to the Jane Willard Foundation.

Flora Stevenson, Edinburgh

Princess May London N16

Florence Nightingale Academy

Dame Alice Owens
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Lady Margaret

QE School

Here in SE13 there's a plaque on the house the Macmillan sisters lived in. I saw the plaque before I knew much about them and their pioneering ideas.

Clarice Cliff.

How could I forget that one.

Greenwich used to have Charlotte Turner (novelist and poet) but it was closed down. It has since reopened as part of a MAT.

Charlotte Sharman primary in Southwark is facing closure. Sharman ran homes to care for orphans.

There's a Charlotte nursery and infant school in Derbyshire that seems to be doing better than the London Charlottes.

St Mary's in Crosby, Merseyside. Private school.

That's interesting. There is (was?) a Wix Primary near where I used to live. No first name. Wonder if it's the same person.

I'm curious that there's so many schools names after Alices!

One of our local primaries is named after a female Saint called St Keyna who lived in the 5th century.

Beatrix Potter in Wandsworth

There’s a little infant school near us named in memory of the wife of the man who set it up in the 19th century. As far as I’m aware she wasn’t anyone famous, she died and he set up the school.

I went to a school named after the man who set it up 500ish years ago.

St Katherine’s
St Mary’s
Queen Elizabeth