Motto learn without limits Type Community school DfE URN 100457 Tables Number of students 823 | Established 1925 Headteacher Jo Dibb Phone +44 20 7837 0739 Founded 1925 | |
Location Donegal Street
London
N1 9QG
England Address Donegal St, London N1 9QG, UK Similar Central Foundation Boys' Sch, Swim Islington, Highbury Fields School, Holloway School, Mount Carmel Roman C | ||
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School (EGA) is a medium-sized comprehensive secondary school for girls in Islington, London, England is rated as 'Outstanding' by OFSTED in its most recent inspection report. It is named in honour of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in the United Kingdom.
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Overview
EGA’s buildings, which are located between King's Cross railway station and Angel tube station, are named after great women in history, such as Emily Brontë.
History
Starcross school was founded in 1928 as Starcross School and moved into the buildings made vacant by the 1965 closing of Risinghill School, which had opened in 1960, although a school has existed on the site since 1885 (further extended in 1899 )(originally Rising Hill Street School). Barnsbury Girls' School was created in 1934 on the site of an all age Victorian school in Barnsbury Park. Barnsbury & Starcross merged to form Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in 1984.
In 2009, the school was visited by Michelle Obama, wife of the American president Barack Obama. During her visit she gave a speech about achieving regardless of your background and spoke about how much she had in common with the girls at the school. On 25 May 2011, during a state visit of the US president, she took a group of 37 pupils at the school to Oxford University for a presentation. In 2012, the First Lady invited a group of students from EGA to meet her in the White House.
The school was rebuilt as part of the final phase of BSF and the new building opened in November 2012. Demolition of the old buildings and landscaping of the site is now complete.