Frances Jane Ross (1869–1950) was a New Zealand school principal known as "a pioneer in women's education".

Before enrolling at the university, Ross had been a foundation pupil of Girton College, a Dunedin school founded by Otago's first woman graduate Caroline Freeman.

[1] Ross was the founding principal of Columba College, a Presbyterian secondary school for boarders and day girls.

[2] Ross continued as a school governor and she took up voluntary work for the Young Women's Christian Association of New Zealand.

[1] During the Second World War, Frances Ross returned to the teaching workforce as warden of St Margaret's College, principal of the Dunedin Presbyterian Women's Training Institute, and teacher at St Hilda's Collegiate School.