The Country's 'Top Small Independent School' for the Second Year Running - Sunday Times lists (15th November 2009)

Summer 2009 GCSE Results - 73% of grades were A* or A (39% A*, 34% A)

100% of girls achieved 5 or more at A* to C, 42% achieved all A*/A grades, but we are proud of all the girls. What really matters is how each girl performed relative to her potential.

Welcome to the St Margaret’s School website. St. Margaret’s is an independent school for girls between the ages of 4 and 16. There are 150 girls and 25 staff (of which 21 are teachers) in the St Margaret’s family. Our close-knit community is the secret of our success as a school.

We will not make immeasurable promises about “helping girls to reach their potential” or “to give each girl lots of individual attention”, or even to “help her leave a confident and happy individual”. Every school should be aiming to do all three.

What should be immediately apparent to anyone visiting the school is this: small class sizes, a culture of learning, and an environment in which treating each other with respect and kindness is the norm, not an aim. 

The school has become expert at teaching girls-only since 1884. Alongside their class teachers, girls from our Primary School are taught by specialist teachers in French, ICT and Music, and from Year 4 almost all lessons are taught by specialists. We are an all-in-one Junior and Senior School.  

We are located in the leafy, residential area of Hampstead, North London, in the Borough of Camden.

If you are new to the school and are wondering if your daughter would benefit from joining our family, why not make an appointment to come and see us? In the meantime, you might also like to look us up in the Good School’s Guide. In addition you may wish to read our most 2007 inspection report. Though we were understandably pleased with our report, since its publication we have worked hard to make St Margaret’s an even better school by looking at what we could improve upon. This is the other secret of our success: never resting on our reputation but striving to do even better. 

Mr M Webster
Principal