Dame Allan’s Schools were founded in 1705, in the reign of Queen Anne, and are two of the oldest schools in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.

The Girls’ School is believed to be one of the oldest independent girls’ schools in the country. They were founded by Dame Eleanor Allan, the daughter of a city goldsmith and the widow of a wealthy tobacco merchant, to provide a proper education for 40 poor boys and 20 poor girls of the city parishes.

From its early beginnings in the west of Newcastle, the Schools moved to College Street in the city centre, where it had one of the first Physics laboratories in Newcastle, and then to its present site in Fowberry Crescent.

While we are immensely proud of our heritage, we are firmly focused on the future.

The “proper education” offered today embraces an enormous range of subjects inside and outside the curriculum and boys and girls are prepared for a broad spectrum of careers.

See our recent Tercentenary celebrations in pictures.

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