Hollygirt School is a day school founded in Nottingham in 1877 as an Independent School for girls from 4 to 16 years. It is a non profit making Educational Trust managed by a Board of Trustees. The Headmistress is a member of the Girls' Schools Association. There are some 330 girls in the school of whom 110 are in the Junior School. Entrance at 7 and 11 is by examination. There is an open entry at 4+.
Most Junior School girls transfer to the Senior School. Forms and teaching groups are limited in size for close working relationships between girls and teachers. Every girl follows a core curriculum in line with the National Curriculum, with opportunities to develop strengths in languages, music, drama, art. At 16 the majority of all girls achieve GCSE grades in the A-C band, and proceed to A-level courses in other independent day or boarding schools or local maintained sector schools.
Hollygirt School aims to provide a sound education, with particular emphasis on the needs and abilities of the individual pupils. Great care is taken in the direction of studies so that every girl has the opportunity to develop her own talents, and has the maximum help in her less successful areas of achievement.
Hollygirt is situated on the North East side of the city and attracts girls from all over Nottinghamshire and from the Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire borders. The school occupies three large Victorian houses which are constantly being improved and developed to provide up-to-date facilities for the Arts, Science and Mathematics, Information Technology and the Creative Arts.
