Established 1871 Headmistress Elizabeth Kitcatt DfE number 202/4611 Founder Frances Buss Number of students 1,006 | Chair of Governors Janet Pope Phone +44 20 7485 3414 Founded 1871 Motto Onwards and Upwards | |
Location Sandall RoadCamden TownLondonNW5 2DBEngland Similar St Marylebo C of E Sc, Parliament Hill School, Haverstock School, Fortismere School, Regent High School | ||
The Camden School for Girls (CSG) is a comprehensive secondary school for girls, with a co-educational sixth form, in the London Borough of Camden in north London. It has about one thousand students of ages eleven to eighteen, and specialist-school status as a Music College. The school has long been associated with the advancement of women's education.
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History
Founded in 1871 by the suffragist Frances Mary Buss, who also founded North London Collegiate School, the Camden School for Girls was one of the first girls' schools in England. A grammar school for much of the 20th century, it became comprehensive in 1976, although only year by year. It was not fully comprehensive until 1981. The school was damaged in the war but rebuilt in 1957, the architect being John Eastwick-Field OBE.
Academic performance
A 1999 Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) report called it "a unique and very effective school in many ways." Another, written in March 2005, said it was an "outstanding school with excellent features," and the most recent report said that it "rightly deserves the outstanding reputation it has among parents and in the community." Its GCSE results are excellent, and its A-level results are the best in the Camden LEA outside the private sector.
Notable former pupils
The following people were educated at the Camden School for Girls. Some of them only attended the sixth form.