She led the Abbotsleigh private school for over twenty years during a time of expansion and rising attainments.

[1] in 1920 Gordon Everett replaced Dr John Marden as the head of the Presbyterian Pymble Ladies' College.

[1] In 1939 the school opened new classrooms to teach science and other subjects, but the waiting list continued.

At the same time, culture was not ignored, Gordon Everett owned post-impressionist paintings that were hung in the school.

[1] By the time Gordon Everett retired in 1954, there was 660 students; a separate junior school building had opened and the waiting list was still extant.