St Leonards School
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| St Leonards School | |
| Image:StLeonards.jpg | |
| Motto: Ad Vitam | |
| Established | 1877 |
| Type | Independent Boarding School |
| Founder | Dame Louisa Lumsden |
| Headmaster | Robert Tims, MA (Cantab) |
| Faculty | 36 full time; 15 part time |
| Students | 172 boys; 218 girls |
| Location | St Andrews, Fife, Scotland |
| Website | www.stleonards-fife.org |
Founded in 1877 by Dame Louisa Lumsden amid the increased demand for woman's education, St Leonards School and Sixth Form College, located in St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland, is now co-educational. The Sunday Times recently announced it "Scottish Independent School of the Year".[1]
Following an announcement in March 2005 [2], St Leonards junior and middle schools have merged with New Park Prep School, also located in St Andrews, operating as one unit under the name St Leonards-New Park.
St Leonards was the first school in Scotland to offer the International Baccalaureate and it also claims to be the first school in the world to have played women's lacrosse. [3]
[edit] Notable alumni
- Stella Tennant, supermodel
- Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford DBE, Shadow Minister for Food and Rural Affairs
- Anji Hunter, former Director of Government relations
- Martha Fairlie, BBC Scotland education correspondent
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw DBE, mathematician and educationalist
- Betty Harvie Anderson, Conservative politician and peer
- Kitty Godfree, Wimbledon Women's Champion
- Fiona Gaunt, television actor
