Cheltenham Ladies' College
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The Cheltenham Ladies' College was founded in 1853 as a school for women. It is situated in Cheltenham, a spa town in the English Cotswolds. Today, it takes girls aged 11 to 18 as boarding or day pupils. It is one of the most expensive private schools in England, with boarding fees of around £27,000 a year.
In 1858 the Principal's post was taken by Dorothea Beale, a prominent Suffragette educator who also founded St. Hilda's College, Oxford.
Ms. Beale kept this post until her death in 1906, and transformed the school from a small establishment concentrating on developing women's accomplishments in music, sewing & drawing for example, into the first academic school offering courses equivalent to those in men's schools - like mathematics and English.
A verse from the time of Ms Beale runs:
- Miss Buss and Miss Beale
- Cupid’s darts do not feel.
- How different from us,
- Miss Beale and Miss Buss.
(Her friend Frances Buss was the head of the North London Collegiate School.)
The school crest depicts three dove, taken from the Cheltenham Town shield, above curly writing reading CLC, which is in turn above a daisy, one of the most important school symbols.
Presently, the school educates around 850 girls, of which 80% board. It has excellent facilities, both for teaching and for sport. Its academic prowess is notable but it remains a friendly school catering for a wide range of abilities.
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