Figure 1.-- Here we see part of the 1962 school portrait. The staff was mostly female. While a secondary school, the school added a mixed gender junior department. We are not sure if they were included in the 200 pupil count. Adding a junior department was something quite a few private girls schools did to ensure seady annualm intake. Some opened coed junior schools, others kept the junior department all girlslike the senior school.

The York College for Girls (YCG) was a girls' secondary school founded (1908). It was a fee paying indeoendentb school (private)n school rather like a grammar school. We are not sure, hoeever, how selective it was. College in Briatain and much of Europe commonly refers to a seconary-level school. By this time in England, quite a number of secondary schools for girls had been opened, although there were still more for boys than girls. Almost all secondary schools in the early 20th century were single gender schools. The school was founded by the Church Schools Company (now the United Church Schools Trust) and opened with 12 pupils (1908). The school acquired a building in Low Petergate which dated back to about 1725. The school had about 200 pupils (1990s), but used the same buildings with later extensions. ll of thee girl's school adpted the blazer as aprt of the uniformmwhich youncan see here (figure 1). While a secondary school, the school added a mixed gender junior department. We are not sure if they were included in the 200 pupil count. Adding a junior department was something quite a few private girls schools did to ensure seady annualm intake. Some opened coed junior schools, others kept the junior department all girlslike the senior school. We nortice some images from the school which show both a green and red uniform for the senior school. We are not nure what the difference was. Only 200 pupils was fairly small for a secondary school. And for finacial reasons the school closed rather unexpectantly (1997).

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