Folkestone School for Girls

The Folkestone School for Girls (FSG) is an all-girls grammar school with academy status in Folkestone, Kent, England, next to Sandgate Primary School on Coolinge Lane.

The Folkestone School for Girls
Address
Coolinge Lane

Folkestone
,
Kent
,
CT20 3RB

England
Coordinates51°04′36″N 1°09′04″E
Information
TypeGrammar academy
Established1905
Department for Education URN137837 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherMr M Lester
Staff253
GenderGirls
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1048
HousesAusten
Curie
Johnson
Pankhurst
Lovelace
Seacole
Colour(s)Dark Blue and Green
Websitehttp://www.folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk/

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 the Folkestone 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 Grange (at Shorncliffe Road)
  • Folkestone County Technical School for Girls
  • Folkestone Technical High School for Girls
  • Folkestone County Grammar School for Girls

The boys' grammar school is called the Harvey Grammar School.

Admissions & Destinations

The school intended to use the entrance examination introduced by Dover 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]  

House System

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. The houses also have their own prefects, chosen from Year 13.

Notable former pupils

References
  1. "Determination". Case reference: ADA/000723. Schools Adjudicator. 8 July 2005. Archived from the original (doc) on 24 March 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2007.
  2. "Curriculum - Sixth Form". Folkestone School for Girls. 11 June 2019.
  3. BBC Trust
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