History of our School

Maidstone Grammar School for Girls was founded in 1887 with funds provided by the Wardens of Rochester Bridge. The school opened in 1888 in a new building called Albion Place which was sited in Sittingbourne Road in Maidstone. The first headmistress was Miss Pope. She was so important to the running of the school that if she was absent, the school closed for the day! She hoped for a school of: “mixed girls of all ranks and classes…No matter what their position in society…provided they behave themselves, they may all enter.”