Stroud High School
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| Motto | "Trouthe and Honour, Fredom and Curteisye" |
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| Established | 1904 |
| Type | Grammar school; Academy |
| Chair | Mrs. Jacqui Phillips |
| Location |
Beards Lane, Cainscross Road Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 4HF England Coordinates: 51°44′46″N 2°13′58″W / 51.746°N 2.2327°W |
| DfE URN | 136874 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 860 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Capel (C), Griffin (G), Kimmin (K) Arundale (A) and Stanley (S). All five houses are named after mills in the Stroud valleys. |
| Website | stroudhigh |
Stroud High School (SHS) is a grammar school with academy status for girls aged 11 to 18 located in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. It shares a Sixth Form with the local boys' school, Marling School.
Stroud High School was founded in 1904 as the Girls' Endowed School by a group of local citizens led by solicitor Mr. A. J. Morton Ball, who decided that the girls of Stroud and the surrounding areas deserved a secondary school to match Marling School for boys that had been founded some years earlier. As a suitable building was not available, the school was initially housed in rooms in the School of Science and Art in Lansdown, Stroud. Miss D.M. Beale, niece of Dorothea Beale the founder of St Hilda's College, Oxford and long-term headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies' College was appointed as the first headmistress.
In 1912, D.M. Beale, her staff and seventy girls moved into a new purpose built building in the Queen Anne style which still stands today at the heart of the current school complex.
In 1939, a school hall was added.
In early 1940, girls from Edgbaston High School in Birmingham were evacuated to Stroud High School, returning only when suitable air raid facilities had been constructed at EHS.
In 1964, the Stroud Secondary Technical School for Girls merged with Stroud High School.
In 1988, the school became a grant-maintained school and in 1998 a foundation school.
In 2003, the school achieved the status of a Specialist School for Science and Mathematics.
The school engages in a range of charitable fund-raising activities, which are largely organised by the students themselves. In 2004 Stroud High School won the Giving Nation Award for raising money to help build a school in the Philippines.
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