Newport Girls' High School

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Newport Girls' High School
Address
Newport Girls' High School
Wellington Road

Newport
,
Shropshire
,
TF10 7HL

England
Coordinates 52°45′48″N2°22′53″W / 52.7632°N 2.3813°W / 52.7632; -2.3813
Information
Type Grammar school;
Academy
Establishedc.1919
Local authority Telford and Wrekin Council
Department for Education URN 136516 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Chair of GovernorsTony Brown
HeadteacherAdam Jones
Deputy HeadteacherSophie Webster
GenderGirls
Age11to 18
Enrolment800
HousesAusten (red), Roddam (yellow), Seacole (green). Formerly Bronte (red), Cavell (yellow), Curie (green) and Keller (blue).
Colour(s)Grey, blue and white (uniform Yrs 7-11); black and white (uniform Sixth Form), red, yellow, green (houses)
AdmissionSelective
School TypeState Grammar (Girls)
Website https://www.nghs.org.uk/

Newport Girls' High School is an all-girls grammar school with academy status in Newport, Shropshire, England. [1] The school was opened in the 1919 by a group of female governesses as a single-sex day school for local girls. The school is selective and is an all-girls intake with an intake of 120 students per year. Until 2003 the intake was 32 per year, from 2003 56 a year, rising to 84 in 2013 and increasing further to 90 in 2019. The school has also achieved Maths and Computing specialist status. It was named the ‘West Midlands State Secondary School of the Year’ in 2020 by the Sunday Times and the number one school in Shropshire, number 65 in the UK, in the Sunday Times Parent Power Guide 2025.

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Newport Girls' High School


Headteachers

History

Until the establishment of Newport Girls' High School and despite the long-established Adams' Grammar School providing boys' education, the town and its satellite villages had no publicly-funded secondary education for girls. The County Education Committee of Shropshire County Council approved the design of what remains as the street facade of the school in 1920. This was designed by the Committee's architect George Henry Bailey (1856 or 1857-1930) who had practiced in London before moving to Shropshire in 1910. [14] Its neo-Georgian front with white painted sash windows, stone window reveals and brick facing, alongside original wooden entrance doors and internal sky lantern in the main entrance hall, are comparable to other surviving commissions of this period, particularly surviving buildings at Wombridge Infants' School, Oakengates, Weston Rhyn Primary School (the brick later rendered), Maesbury Primary School (closed 2012), Walker Technical College (now residential) and Harlescott Junior School. [15] The main facade were built using Lilleshall common bricks, with cornices of Lilleshall seconds red, although there was criticism within the Committee during building that these bricks were of insufficient quality and the same as being used in local coal mines. [16] The builder A.H.Woodhouse of Hanwood, near Shrewsbury, was paid £12 000 [17] and the building was first occupied in 1925.

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