This was in response to competing school Lawrence Sheriff accepting both male and female students into their sixth form.

was in the process of buying the Clifton Road site when Miss Hands decided she had to close her school.

The foundation stone was laid on 2 October 1924 and the upper school moved in for the Autumn term 1927, when 'Arnold' was dropped from the name.

[3] On Monday 26 November 1951 a competition was recorded against Bolton boys school, who they beat by 1 point, getting to the England final against Beckenham and Penge School for Boys, broadcast on 3 December 1951, with Diana Higgins 17, Helen Compton 14, Jocelyn Milner 13, and Elizabeth Edmundson 12.

[5] In the semi-final the team was beaten 25-31 by St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls of Belfast, broadcast on Monday 31 December 1951.

The current houses are named after Onjali Raúf, founder of Making Herstory and an author, Dame Kelly Holmes, an athlete, Mary Seacole, a British-Jamaican Nurse and Evelyn Glennie, a deaf percussionist – the initials of which stand for RHSG (Rugby High School for Girls).

The houses are assigned to whole form groups, and they can gain house points by taking part in various school events, such as the annual Sports Day, interform sports, or Pink Day (in support of Cancer Research UK).

However, the house system has created a link between different year groups and has encouraged wider participation in school events other than the interform.

The original houses, in use at least up to 1979, were named after Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, Charlotte Brontë/Emily Brontë/Anne Brontë, Edith Cavell, Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale and Queen Margaret.

House points were awarded for consistently good work in a particular subject – three A's in a row as well as mentions on a termly sheet.

The school also has a 6th Form Entertainment, produced by the year 13 students – sometimes with assistance from the staff – at the end of the Autumn term.

Previous years included Cinderella (1999), Big Brother (2000), The Wizard of Oz (2001) and The Sound of Music (2005).

Raúf is yellow, Holmes is Red, Seacole is Green and Glennie is Purple From September 2017, there is a change to the blazers, changing the crest from the previous logo (RHS in a circle) to the new one (a lime green 'R' with Rugby High School Written below in white).

For several years, an Old Girls’ Dance was held at Christmas time but support for these events eventually dwindled and so from 1959 until 1963, the Society ceased to exist.

The Society presented a music stool and engraved outdoor seat to mark the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of the school in 1979.

Funds were raised by the Old Girls to buy a table and chair for the platform in the School Hall in memory of Miss Briselden (a former Headmistress) after her death in 1992.

Shirley Wallbank has provided musical entertainment for the reunion on several occasions and Pat Petrie wrote a play portraying her schooldays (1949–1954).

There was no shortage of Old Girls then to dress up in the navy tunics, square-necked blouses and the pudding basin hats that they hated when at school!

The biggest Fund raising was to restore the tiled Art Deco panel which had been rescued from the Clifton Road school just before it was demolished in 1995.