Founded in 1857, Bradford Girls' Grammar School is an independent senior school for girls aged 11 – 18 with co-educational preparatory school and nursery, called Lady Royd Preparatory School for boys and girls aged 2 – 11 years.
The school is located on the outskirts of Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

 city centre in West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

. Recent public examination results put the school top in Bradford and among the top three in Yorkshire. Bradford Girls' Grammar School is described as a centre of excellence of the development of women leaders.

Notable former pupils

• Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour Party politician.
• Linda Barker
  Linda Barker
  Linda Barker is an English interior designer and television presenter.-Education:Barker studied Fine Arts at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Farnham. She then did odd jobs in various areas including fashion, before settling into a career as an interior designer...
  
  , English interior designer and television presenter.
• Juliet Barker
  Juliet Barker
  Juliet R. V. Barker FRSL is a British historian, specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography. She is the author of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontës, William Wordsworth, and medieval tournaments...
  
  , British historian.
• Melanie Kilburn
  Melanie Kilburn
  Melanie Kilburn is an English actress, well known for playing PC Laura Bryant in ITV's, The Bill....
  
  , English actress.
• Natalia Kills
  Natalia Kills
  Natalia Keery-Fisher is an English singer-songwriter, actress, and short-film director who performs under the stage name Natalia Kills. She released her first single "Don't Play Nice" under the name Verbalicious in February 2005...
  
  , English singer-songwriter.
• Lizzie Mickery, British writer and former actress.
• Anita Rani
  Anita Rani
  Anita Rani is an English born ethnic Indian radio and television presenter and journalist.-Early life:Rani was born and raised in Bradford in Yorkshire, to a mother of Sikh origins, and Hindu father...
  
  , English radio and television presenter, and journalist.

External links

• Bradford Girls' Grammar School, Independent Schools Council.