Its history goes much further back, however, to 1905 as the Folkestone County School for Girls.

There is a Folkestone School Old Girls' Association with further information and some 800 members, including from various of the current school's predecessors, which, along the way have merged.

[1] In 2017, around 85% of students either continued onto university or planned to do so after a gap year.

[2] There are six houses named after historically important women: (Marie) Curie, (Amy) Johnson, (Jane) Austen, (Emmeline) Pankhurst, (Ada) Lovelace and (Mary) Seacole.

Each house has an assigned colour, green, red, yellow, blue, orange and purple respectively.