- York Friends’ Girls’ School was founded by the Religious Society of Friends in 1785 and moved to The Mount in 1856. It is run according to the Quaker values of simplicity, truth, equality, peace, social justice and sustainability.
- Pupils can join choirs, vocal groups, an orchestra, a wind band, a swing band and many other groups, which perform concerts in venues including York Minster. The Mount is one of 25 all-Steinway schools in the country, with 14 performance-quality Steinway pianos.
- The four houses are named Cadbury, Fry, Rowntree and Terry, after Quaker families whose daughters attended the school; the mid-morning break is still referred to as “choc lunch”.
- As well as being assigned to a tutor group, girls have peer mentors under the school’s traditional Nutcracker system.
- Former students include the authors AS Byatt and Margaret Drabble and the actress Dame Judi Dench.
- Following re-marks, the Mount School’s A Level results rose to 82.7% A*-B, the highest in York
Results
A-level 2024 rank: 133=
Grade
%
A*
11.5
A
38.5
B
30.8
A*/A
50
A*-B
80.8
GCSE 2024 rank: 274
Grade
%
A*/9/8
26.4
A/7
18.1
A*/A/9/8/7
44.5