Stroud High School

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Field	Value
name	Stroud High School
image	SHSL logo.png
coordinates
motto	"Trouthe and Honour, Fredom and Curteisye"/"A learning partnership valuing respect, personal best ... and a spirit of fun. "
established	1904
type	Grammar school; Academy
head	Mark McShane
chair	Jacqui Phillips
address	Beards Lane, Cainscross Road
city	Stroud
county	Gloucestershire
country	England
postcode	GL5 4HF
urn	136874
ofsted	yes
enrolment	1026
gender	Girls
lower_age	11
upper_age	18
houses	Capel (C), Griffin (G), Kimmin (K) Arundel (A) and Stanley (S). All five houses are named after mills in the Stroud valleys.
website	http://stroudhigh.gloucs.sch.uk
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Stroud High School (SHS) is a grammar school with academy status for girls aged 11 to 18 located in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. Since 2021, it has been a European Parliament Ambassador School.

History

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 is still part 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 became a Specialist School for Science and Mathematics.

In 2008, Tim Withers was appointed as its first male head in over 100 years.

In 2009, the school had a second specialism in Modern Foreign Languages.

In 2010, Stroud High School, operating through the Afri Twin organisation, twinned with Rustenburg School for Girls and Mfuleni High School, in the greater Cape Town area of Western Cape Province, South Africa.

In 2018, the school opened their new £1 million grant funded refurbished/rebuilt science block with two new classrooms.

In 2019 the school opened up places for its new co-ed cohort as Stroud High Sixth Form after splitting from Marling School. German classes are still shared and the sixth forms share the Sixth Form Block.

Academic standards

Stroud High School has consistently achieved a GCSE Level 2 threshold (the equivalent of 5+A*-C) of 100%. The Ofsted Report, which graded the school as 'Outstanding' was compiled in December 2010. An inspection in 2013 revealed there were then "Areas for improvement". ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Stroud_High_School.jpg" caption="Stroud High School main building"] ::

Academy status

In February 2011, Stroud High School began a consultation process with stakeholders, principally parents, staff and students which it stated might lead to the school converting to an Academy later in the year. Stroud High School then became an Academy on 1 July 2011, a month before its partner school, Marling School.

Sixth form education

Students are able to continue their education beyond the age of sixteen in the school's co-educational Sixth Form which was operated jointly with Marling School until 2019, when they decided to split into Stroud High sixth form and Marling sixth form respectively. The two schools still share a number of facilities on their adjoining sites. The joint Sixth Form block was extended to double the size of the accommodation and to include a new one hundred and sixty seat Lecture Theatre.

Notable former pupils

• Anna Corderoy - Olympic Coxswain
• Tina May - jazz musician and vocalist
• Emma McClarkin - politician and youngest British MEP
• Dame Margaret Weston - Director, the Science Museum, London (1973–1986)

References

References

1. Wood, Sarah. (30 November 2022). "Stroud school recognised by European school programme". Gloucestershire Business News.
2. (1994). "High old times". Alan Sutton Publishing.
3. "Stroud: Education Pages 141-144 A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11, Bisley and Longtree Hundreds.". Victoria County History.
4. [http://www.edgbastonhigh.co.uk/about-ehs] {{Webarchive. link. (19 August 2009 {{Webarchive). link. (19 August 2009 Edgbaston High School website)
5. (8 September 2017). "70 years ago these ladies walked in to a new school and they have been friends ever since". Gloucestershire Live.
6. "30 years of Stroud 1984 to 2014". Stroud Local History Society.
7. "Stroud High School". Ofsted.
8. (4 July 2011). "African teachers take tips home from Stroud High School". Stroud News and Journal.
9. "New Science block is opened by STEM Ambassador at Stroud High School". Carter.
10. (20 February 2018). "'Acrimony' and 'angst' between two grammar schools over sixth form split - but now it feels like an 'amicable divorce'". Gloucestershire Live.
11. (20 June 2019). "Stroud High School". Gloucestershire Live.
12. "Stroud High School". Ofsted.
13. "Ofsted 2012–13 subject survey inspection programme". Ofsted.
14. "About Us". Stroud High School.
15. [https://www.stroudhighsixthform.co.uk] {{Webarchive. link. (29 August 2020 SHS sixth form website)
16. [https://www.marlingsixthform.org] {{Webarchive. link. (13 May 2020 {{Webarchive). link. (13 May 2020 Marling sixth form website)
17. [http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/search/4563823.Extension_doubles_size_of_Downfield_Sixth_Form] {{Webarchive. link. (25 February 2012 {{Webarchive). link. (25 February 2012 Stroud News and Journal Article)
18. (18 August 2017). "ROWING: Former Stroud High School student Anna Corderoy selected by Team GB for World Rowing Championships". Stroud News and Journal.
19. "Tina May". Band on the Wall.
20. "Emma McClarkin". Wellingborough Conservatives.
21. "Happy 90th Birthday to Dame Margaret Weston". Stroud High School.

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