Putney High School

From its beginnings in 1893 the school has expanded from a population of 54 to 860 - from five scattered houses until the final acquisition of the Putney Hill site in 1918 - under the auspices of eleven headmistresses - this is the history of Putney High School. Putney was the thirty-5th school of the Girls? Public Day School Company, as the GDST was then called. The Company offered a school only when it was asked for by people living in the locality and Mary Gurney, a local resident and a great pioneer of women's education supported the application.