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
Location
Coolinge Lane Folkestone , Kent , CT20 3RB England
Coordinates	51°04′36″N 1°09′04″E
Information
Type	Grammar academy
Established	1905
Department for Education URN	137837 Tables
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 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.

Notable former pupils

See also: Category:People educated at Folkestone School for Girls

• Tracey Crouch, Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham and Aylesford
• Daphne Fowler, Brain of Britain winner 1997, BBC's Eggheads (TV series) team member 2003–Present
• Anne Farmer, professor of psychiatry
• Alison Hastings, Vice-President of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), and Editor of Newcastle's Evening Chronicle from 1996-2002 ^[3]
• Dame Sheila Sherlock, hepatologist