[3][4] The Abbey School provides education for girls aged 3 to 18 years.

[citation needed] Founded in 1887,[6] the school moved to its present site in 1905[6] under the leadership of headmistress Helen Musson.

In 2017, HRH The Countess of Wessex visited the school as part of their 130th anniversary celebrations.

The school aimed to provide high quality education with a Christian ethos at an affordable price.

[12] On 16 March 1905 William Methuen Gordon Ducat, the Archdeacon of Berkshire, laid the foundation stone of the school, which featured the inscription, "In aedificationem corporis Christi".

The name was chosen to commemorate a former Reading school dating from 1835, which was based in the Abbey Gateway.