St Joan of Arc School for Girls was instigated by an order of French nuns, the Filles de Jesus, in 1904 with just five pupils.

[4] During the 2019 Coronavirus outbreak, as per national guidelines,[5] St Joan of Arc closed completely and with other schools in the district donated vital protective equipment to local hospitals to help the fight against the virus.

The Elms was a grand Georgian estate built in 1728 consisting of the house and eleven and a half acres with a stream running through the grounds.

The forms are named after Catholic saints, four male and four female: In 2014, Head of Music at St Joan of Arc, Derek Berditch was arrested with over 50,000 images of both child sexual abuse material and bestiality on hard drives.

The arrest came after a police investigation into a paedophile ring identified by an Internet Service Provider as distributing child sexual abuse material involving children as young as 6 years old.