Head Teacher Mrs Viv Angus DfE URN 110096 Tables Color Navy blue Date founded 1818 | DfE number 870/5400 Phone +44 118 986 1336 Number of students 628 | |
Established 1818 (as Reading Girls' British School) Type Foundation school
Bilateral school Location Northumberland Avenue
Reading
Berkshire
RG2 7PY
England Address Northumberland Ave, Reading RG2 7PY, UK | ||
Reading girls school time lapse march 2016
Reading Girls' School is a single-sex partially selective (bilateral) school in Reading, Berkshire, England. The school has roughly 648 pupils and nearly 100 teaching staff.
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History
RGS traces its history to Reading Girls' British School, established in 1818 at Southampton Street. In 1907 it was transferred to the new purpose-built George Palmer School. In 1960 George Palmer School moved to RGS' current campus at Northumberland Avenue and the girls' section was later renamed Southlands Secondary School for Girls when George Palmer School closed. The boys' section was renamed Ashmead School and then Ashmean Community School and went through a series of mergers with other schools to become the present-day John Madejski Academy. Southlands Secondary was renamed to Reading Girls' School in 1993 with the implementation of its selective stream.
Since November 2015 RGS is undergoing a rebuild, a new campus on the same site is due to be completed by August 2016.
In February 2016 RGS was placed into special measures after an Ofsted inspection rated the school as 'inadequate'. The inspection highlighted problems with leadership, management and quality of teaching at the school.
Academics
The school is considered a business and enterprise school. Reading Girls' school is partnered with Kendrick School, a grammar school in Reading. Although Reading Girls' School is not categorised as a grammar school, it does have verbal and non-verbal reasoning entrance tests for the selective stream section of the school.