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Rotherham Girls' High School

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Established
  
1906 (1906)

Type
  
County school

Ages
  
11–18

Ceased operations
  
1973

Closed
  
1973 (1973)

Gender
  
Girls

Founded
  
1906

Location
  
Middle Lane Rotherham South Yorkshire England

Local authority
  
Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham

Rotherham Girls' Grammar School was a grammar school in Rotherham.

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History

The school was taken over by Rotherham Corporation in 1906. It moved to Middle Lane in 1910. It closed in 1973 and a comprehensive school, Clifton Comprehensive School, opened in the same buildings.

Headmistresses

  • 1906–1908: Miss Law
  • 1908–1916: Miss Strudwick
  • 1916–1920: Miss Smith
  • 1920–1922: Mrs Mair (née Moss)
  • 1922–1931: Miss Harding
  • 1931–1938: Miss Varly
  • 1938–1946: Miss Dencer
  • 1947–1953: Miss Ayles
  • 1953–1960: Mrs Castle
  • 1960–1973: Mrs Ridge (continued as had of Clifton Comprehensive School)

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