Manchester High School for Girls
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| Motto | Today's Students, Tomorrow's Successful Women |
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| Established | 1874 |
| Type | Independent day school |
| Headmistress | Claire Hewitt |
| Location |
Grangethorpe Road Manchester M14 6HS England |
| Local authority | Manchester |
| DfE number | 352/6030 |
| DfE URN | 105592 Tables |
| Students | c. 950 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 4–18 |
| Logo | Squircle |
| Website | www |
Manchester High School for Girls is an independent day school for girls and a member of the Girls School Association. It is situated in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. The school has more than 930 students on roll. The school is regarded as one of the United Kingdom's leading independent day schools based on A-level results.
The head teacher is Claire Hewitt who took up the position in January 2009 and is the 10th head teacher in the school's history.
The school was founded in 1874 by nine men and women who were prominent citizens of Manchester: it was first established in Chorlton on Medlock. A new school was built in Dover Street in 1881. The building is now occupied by the University of Manchester School of Social Sciences). The founding group included Prof A. S. Wilkins, Harriet and Robert Dukinfield Darbishire and Edward Donner (afterwards Sir Edward Donner, Bart.) The first headmistress was Elizabeth Day. Day was replaced as head by Sara Annie Burstall in 1898.
In September 1939 the school was evacuated to Cheadle Hulme and by 1940 a new school building was under construction at Fallowfield. The unfinished buildings at the Grangethorpe Road site were destroyed by bombing on 20 December 1940. In 1941 the school moved temporarily to Didsbury and by 1949 a new building at Grangethorpe Road began to be occupied. The move into the new school was complete by 1952. The Grangethorpe site was occupied by a large private house and gardens from 1882 to 1936. From 1917 to 1929 it was used as the 2nd Western General Hospital, a military hospital.
The school archive, under archivist Dr Christine Joy, is one of the most extensive in the country, attracting a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and contains material from the mid-19th century onwards.
MHSG has a Preparatory Department for girls aged 4 to 11 and many progress into the Senior School. Prep pupils benefit from a close community which includes a purpose-built infant section, two assembly halls and a fully equipped playground and gardens. There are also specially designated areas for Mathematics and Science, a music room, library and two computer-suites providing multi-media facilities. In 2006, the school introduced the teaching of Mandarin to girls in Years 3 and 4.
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