St Margaret's Anglican Girls' School
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Ascot, Queensland Australia 
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| Coordinates | 27°25′48″S 153°2′57″E / 27.43000°S 153.04917°ECoordinates: 27°25′48″S 153°2′57″E / 27.43000°S 153.04917°E |
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| Type | Independent, Day & Boarding |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Established | 1895 |
| Principal | Ms Ros Curtis |
| Grades | P–12 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Enrolment | ~810 |
| Colour(s) | Navy, White and Brown |
| Website | www.stmargarets.qld.edu.au |
St Margaret's Anglican Girls School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Ascot, an inner-northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Founded in 1895 by the Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent, the school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 810 students from Pre-Preparatory to Year 12, including 170 boarders from Years 7 to 12. St Margaret's has eight Houses: Chaucer, Bede, Herrick, Kendall, Tennyson, Milton, Spenser and Lawson.
St Margaret's is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), and is a founding member of the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association (QGSSSA).
In 1895, The Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent opened a boarding School for girls at Nundah, in a former boys’ school, Eton High School. The school was on land bounded by Bishop Street, Buckland Road, Wand Street and Olive Street. Sister Emma was the Sister-in-Charge and Miss Isabelle Caine was the Headmistress. In 1907, the School moved to Toorak House in Hamilton, Miss Juliet Lyon (1907–1917) replaced Miss Caine and the School roll had grown to 35 pupils.
As well as the usual lessons, students participated in tennis, rowing, basketball and swimming. Three years later the School moved again to Albion Heights. Its new home was Donatello, built in the 1880s for Patrick Durack. It was renamed St Margaret’s House and the School’s name changed to the Church of England High School. Two years later the School became known as St Margaret’s Church of England Girls’ School and has remained on this site ever since. Donatello is still in use today as Community House for the Sisters.
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