The Girls' Schools Association (GSA) is a professional association of the heads of independent girls' schools. It is a constituent member of the Independent Schools Council.
The GSA can trace its history back to the Association of Headmistresses which was founded in 1874. Its president in 1964–66, Diana Reader Harris, ensured that it made a strong and considered response to the influential Plowden Report. It was established in 1974 following the amalgamation of two of the AHM's sub-groups: the Association of Heads of Girls' boarding Schools and the Association of Independent and Direct Grant Schools. It moved from London to its current headquarters in Leicester in 1984, where it now shares offices with the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL). Since 1994 the GSA has been supported by a professional secretariat led by Sheila Cooper, Executive Director.
In January 2009 the Girls' Schools Association set up a website at MyDaughter.co.uk offering advice to parents of daughters on all aspects of raising and educating girls. Advice is provided by head teachers from the member schools of the Girls' Schools Association and other specialists in fields such as nutrition, psychology, health education and business. The information on the MyDaughter website was subsequently merged into the main Girls' Schools Association website at www.gsa.uk.com .
The GSA is a member-led organisation providing mutual professional support and representing the views of practising heads of girls' schools. The current President of the GSA, as of 2015, is Alun Jones, the head of St. Gabriel's School in Newbury.
Below is a list of GSA member schools. Some members are the girls' sections of "Diamond Schools".
England
Abbots Bromley School for GirlsAbbot's Hill SchoolAdcote School for GirlsAlderley Edge School for GirlsBadminton SchoolBedford Girls' SchoolBenenden SchoolBerkhamsted School (girls' section)Blackheath High School GDSTBolton School (girls' section)Bradford Girls' Grammar SchoolBrighton & Hove High School GDSTBromley High School GDSTBruton School for GirlsBurgess Hill SchoolBury Grammar School (Girls)Central Newcastle High School GDSTChanning SchoolCheltenham Ladies' CollegeCity of London School for GirlsCobham HallCombe Bank SchoolCranford House SchoolCroydon High School GDSTDame Allan's Girls' SchoolDerby High SchoolDodderhill SchoolDowne HouseDunottar SchoolDurham High School for GirlsEdgbaston High School for GirlsFarlington SchoolFarnborough HillFarringtons SchoolFrancis Holland School (both campuses)Gateways SchoolGreenacre School for GirlsHarrogate Ladies' CollegeHeadington SchoolHeathfield School, AscotHeathfield School, Pinner GDSTHethersett Old Hall SchoolHighclare SchoolHollygirt SchoolIpswich High School GDSTJames Allen's Girls' SchoolKent College, PemburyKing Edward VI High School for GirlsThe King's High School for GirlsLavant HouseLeicester High School for GirlsLeweston SchoolLoughborough High SchoolLuckley House SchoolMalvern St JamesManchester High School for GirlsManor House SchoolMarymount International SchoolMerchant Taylors' School for GirlsMoira House Girls' SchoolMore House SchoolMoreton Hall SchoolNew Hall School (girls' section)North London Collegiate SchoolNorthampton High School GDSTNorthwood CollegeNorwich High School for Girls GDSTNotre Dame Senior SchoolNotting Hill & Ealing High GDSTNottingham Girls' High School GDSTOckbrook SchoolOld Palace of John Whitgift SchoolOldham Hulme Grammar SchoolsOxford High School GDSTPalmers Green High SchoolPerse School for GirlsPipers Corner SchoolPortsmouth High School GDSTPrior's Field SchoolPrincess Helena CollegePutney High School GDSTQueen Anne's School, CavershamQueen Margaret's School, YorkQueen Mary's School, ThirskQueen's College, LondonQueen's Gate SchoolQueenswood SchoolRedland High School for GirlsRoedean SchoolRoyal Masonic School for GirlsRye St Antony SchoolSaint Martin'sSchool of St Helen & St KatharineSheffield High School GDSTSherborne GirlsShrewsbury High School GDSTSir William Perkins's SchoolSouth Hampstead High School GDSTSt Albans High SchoolSt Catherine's School, BramleySt Catherine's School, TwickenhamSt Dominic's High School for GirlsSt Dominic's Priory SchoolSt Francis' CollegeSt Gabriel's SchoolSt George's School, AscotSt Helen's SchoolSt James Senior Girls' SchoolSt Leonards-Mayfield SchoolSt Margaret's School (Exeter)St Margaret's School, BusheySt Margaret's School, HampsteadSt Martha's Senior SchoolSt Mary's School, AscotSt Mary's School, CalneSt Mary's School, CambridgeSt Mary's School, ColchesterSt Mary's School, Gerrards CrossSt Mary's School, ShaftesburySt Mary's School, WorcesterSt Nicholas' SchoolSt Paul's Girls' SchoolSt Swithun's SchoolSt Teresa's SchoolStamford High SchoolStonar SchoolStover SchoolStreatham & Clapham High School GDSTSurbiton High SchoolSutton High School GDSTSydenham High School GDSTTalbot Heath SchoolTeesside High School (girls' section)The Abbey School, ReadingThe Brigidine SchoolThe Godolphin and Latymer SchoolThe Godolphin SchoolThe Grammar School at Leeds (girls' section)The Haberdashers' Aske's School for GirlsThe Kingsley SchoolThe Lady Eleanor Holles SchoolThe Marist Senior SchoolThe Maynard SchoolThe Mount School, LondonThe Mount School, YorkThe Newcastle upon Tyne Church High SchoolThe Queen's School, ChesterThe Red Maids' SchoolThe Royal High School Bath GDSTThe Royal School HampsteadThe Royal School Haslemere (girls' section)Thornton CollegeTormead SchoolTruro High SchoolTudor HallWakefield Girls' High SchoolWalthamstow HallWestfield SchoolWestholme SchoolWestonbirtWimbledon High School GDSTWithington Girls' SchoolWoldingham SchoolWychwood SchoolWycombe Abbey SchoolWykeham House SchoolScotland
Craigholme SchoolFernhill SchoolKilgraston SchoolMary Erskine School, EdinburghSt George's School, EdinburghSt Margaret's School for Girls, AberdeenHaberdashers' Monmouth School for GirlsHowell's School, Llandaff GDSTThe Ladies' CollegeSan Silvestre School, PeruWestlake Girls High School, New ZealandLatifa School for Girls, United Arab EmiratesUnison World School, IndiaLancaster Girls' Grammar SchoolBirkenhead High School GDSTDr Challoner's High SchoolColston's Girls' SchoolUrsuline Preparatory SchoolAmberfield School - closed in October 2011Casterton School - merged with Sedbergh School in 2013Lodge School - closed in 2010Dame Alice Harpur School and Bedford High School - merged to become Bedford Girls' School (member school) in 2011 and 2012Peterborough High School - became coeducational in 2010 and renamed The Peterborough SchoolSt Joseph's Convent School - became coeducational in 2010 and renamed St Joseph's CollegeSt Margaret's School, Edinburgh - closed in June 2010