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North London Collegiate School is a selective independent day school in the London Borough of Harrow. It admits girls from the ages of 4 to 18 and was founded by pioneering girls' educator Frances Mary Buss in 1850. It is generally recognised as the first ambitious girls' school in the United Kingdom, as it was the first to offer girls the same educational opportunities as boys. North London Collegiate is among the most academically successful schools in England, having been placed in the top five in the Daily Telegraph exam league tables every year for over a decade. It has been an International Baccalaureate World School since October 2003. The first year that it offered the International Baccalaureate, it had the highest average mark in the country and five of its girls were among only ninety students worldwide to score the maximum possible IB score of 45 marks.

Headmistresses and dates of headship

Frances Mary Buss (1850 – December 1894)
Sophie Bryant (1895 – 1918)
Isabella Drummond (1918 – 1940, previously Head of Camden School)
Dame Kitty Anderson (1945 – 1965)
Fenella Fielding (actress)
Margaret Fingerhut (pianist)
Lorna Fitzpatrick (Labour Mayoress of Harrow 1996-97)
Maisie Gay (music hall artist)
Stella Gibbons (novelist)
Noreena Hertz (academic)
Edith How-Martyn (feminist activist)

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