Rugby High School for Girls
| Established | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Type | Grammar School Academy |
| Founder | Olive Hands |
| Location |
Longrood Road Rugby Warwickshire CV22 7RE England Coordinates: 52°21′09″N 1°17′10″W / 52.3525°N 1.286°W |
| Local authority | Warwickshire County Council |
| DfE URN | 125769 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 800 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Ryder, Hepworth, Sharman and (newly in 2013) Glennie |
| Colours | Navy Blue |
| Website | www |
Rugby High School for Girls (commonly known as Rugby High School) is a selective girls' grammar school situated in Bilton, Warwickshire, England. To attend this school, all students must have scored highly in the Eleven plus exam.
To be accepted into the school, pupils must currently take the Eleven plus exam. Candidates who live in Rugby must come in the top 120 girls and candidates who live in the wider catchment area (10 miles from the rugby water tower) must come within the top 60.
It caters purely for female students aged 11 to 16, and joins with Lawrence Sheriff School, a selective boys' grammar school, to teach those aged between 16 and 18. 6th Formers studying at Lawrence Sheriff School attend lessons at Rugby High when their subject is not catered for on the Lawrence Sheriff site and vice versa. IN 2019, both Rugby High School and Lawrence Sheriff school will accept both male and female students into their sixth form as a new agreement.
In the 11-16 age range, the school has a four-form intake. Each year group numbers roughly 120 girls. At post 16, pupils from many other schools join the current pupils at Rugby High School to create a year group that is around double the size of 11-16 year groups.
Olive Hands was born in Rugby. After attending the University of London, she became a teacher at a school in Bromyard. She decided, at the age of 27, that girls of Rugby should be given the opportunity for a first class education. She borrowed money to set up a private school in 1903 in adjoining houses at 10 and 12 Elsee Road. It was named the Arnold High School. Later a preparatory department for younger girls was opened and this had 50 pupils by 1910. By 1909 the school had been expanded by linking it to 12 Elsee Road and there were a total of 114 pupils. By 1914 the preparatory department had moved to Eastfield House (now the Masonic Hall ). In 1916 there were 91 pupils in each half of the school.
The 1918 Education Act gave the county council responsibility for secondary education. In 1919 the W.C.C. was in the process of buying the Clifton Road site when Miss Hands decided she had to close her school. This was the only girls school in Rugby with moderate fees so the council decided it had to take over. In 1919 Miss M.M. Skues was appointed as the first council headmistress. There were 195 girls on the roll and the Elsee Road houses could hold 130. In 1921 the Clifton Road site came into use as the school playing field, replacing a rented field in Bilton Road. In 1926 Miss Skues retired and Miss Glenday took over 140 pupils in the upper school and 40 in the lower.
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