| The Folkestone School for Girls | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
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Coolinge Lane ,, CT20 3RB | |
| Coordinates | 51°04′36″N1°09′04″E / 51.0768°N 1.1512°E /51.0768; 1.1512 |
| Information | |
| Type | Grammaracademy |
| Established | 1905 |
| Department for Education URN | 137837Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Headteacher | M Lester |
| Staff | 253 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 1048 |
| Houses | Austen Curie Johnson Pankhurst Lovelace Seacole |
| Colours | Dark Blue and Green |
| Website | http://www.folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk/ |
The Folkestone School for Girls (FSG) is an all-girlsgrammar school withacademy status inFolkestone,Kent, England, next toSandgate Primary School on Coolinge Lane.
The school, in its current form, on its current site and under its current name, started in 1983. Its history goes much further back, however, to 1905 as theFolkestone County School for Girls. There is a Folkestone School Old Girls' Association with further information and some 800 members, including from various of the current school's predecessors, which, along the way have merged. The previous names were various:
The boys'grammar school is called theHarvey Grammar School.
The school intended to use the entrance examination introduced byDover Grammar School for Boys, but, after an objection by Kent County Council, it was ruled on 8 July 2005 by the Schools Adjudicator that the school should use the county's selection test and Shepway test.[1] In 2017, around 85% of students either continued onto university or planned to do so after a gap year. The remainder went into directly into employment.[2]
There are six houses named after historically important women:(Marie) Curie,(Amy) Johnson,(Jane) Austen,(Emmeline) Pankhurst,(Ada) Lovelace and(Mary) Seacole. Each house has an assigned colour, green, red, yellow, blue, orange and purple respectively.
