Established 1846 Head Anna Tomlinson Gender Girls Number of students 400 | Type Independent day school DfE number 528/2136 Phone +44 1224 584466 Founded 1846 | |
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Location 17 Albyn Place
Aberdeen
AB10 1RU
Scotland Address 17 Albyn Pl, Aberdeen AB10 1RU, UK Motto Tenez Ferme; (French: Hold Fast) Similar Albyn School, Robert Gordon's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Grammar School, Harlaw Academy Profiles | ||
St Margaret's School for Girls is an independent day school for girls in Aberdeen, Scotland. Founded in 1846, it is the oldest continuously operating girls' school in Scotland. The Good Schools Guide describes St Margaret's as a "jolly nice old fashioned school with proper values and the best of modern teaching methods."
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It is a member of the Scottish Council of Independent Schools (SCIS), Girls' Schools Association and Queen Margaret of Scotland Girls' Schools Association.
History
St Margaret's was founded in 1846 and named after Queen Margaret. The nursery school for ages 3 to 5, known as The Nursery at St Margaret's (formally The Daffodil Nursery), opened in 1937 and is coeducational.
Since the nearby Albyn School went coeducational in 2005, St Margaret's is the only remaining school in the North of Scotland that caters exclusively to girls' primary and secondary education.
In 2012 a teaching assistant at the school was removed from the GTCs register after she removed a student's tooth.
Academics
St Margaret's regularly performs well in the exam league tables. It topped the national rankings in the 2006 Advanced Highers.
Houses
All girls belong to one of the three houses, which are named after Medieval castles in Aberdeenshire.