page_title: The Ladies' College, Guernsey
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: The Ladies' College, Guernsey / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance gate of the secondary school Ladies' College in Les Gravées, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.
context_page_description: The Ladies' College is an independent day school for girls in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey. The school was founded on 10 October 1872 in order to provide acamedic education to girls on the island and was modelled after Cheltenham Ladies' College. As a member of the Girls' Schools Association, it is a public school in the British sense of the term.
  The senior school has around 400 girls aged 11 to 18, and provides a coeducational sixth form in partnership with the nearby Elizabeth College. An associated preparatory school, Melrose, was opened in 1949 on the same site as senior school. As a selective school, prospective pupils must pass an entrance exam to be offered a place, although the school accepts pupils from a wide ability range. The school charges £3,740 per term, with three terms per academic year, as of 2020/2021.
context_section_description: The school was founded on 10 October 1872, with the aim of providing acamedic education to girls on the island. The school was established in order to emulate Cheltenham Ladies' College, by the two joint-secretaries of the Guernsey Ladies' Educational Guild who issued two hundred shares of five pounds each; fittingly, the school's first principal was a former member of staff at Cheltenham College. By the end of the school's first academic year the number of pupils reached 70.
  Ahead of the second world war, 1939 saw a large increase in enrollment at the school as many parents sent their children to the island for their safety, with many believing the Channel Islands to be the safest place in the British Isles. However, following the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces in June 1940, an evacuation scheme was quickly assembled and 100 pupils, accompanied by school staff, were evacuated to England before eventually settling in Denbigh, Wales, following an invitation from the headmistress of the local Howell's School who offered to receive the school.
  In 1949, following the school's return to the island, Melrose, a listed Georgian building adjacent to the school site was acquired and converted into a preparatory school. Following damage to the school building following a fire in 1962, the school was formally taken over in 1963 by the States of Guernsey, who approved the development of a new school building on the Grange. The foundation stone for the building was laid by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who declared, "the modern woman needs to have the highest education available to her if she is to take her place in the modern world" and wished the school a successful future.
caption: The entrance to The Ladies' College site from the Grange
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