 The 1902 Education Act also made it a legal requirement for the County Council to provide an equal educational opportunity for girls . A conference was held in October 1903 to discuss the founding of a girls ' school , and by January 1905 Wisbech High School for Girls was established in Harecroft House on the North Brink . The house had been donated on a long @-@ term lease for the purpose by the Peckover family . Harecroft House had been built in 1844 by Algernon Peckover , and his descendants lived in the house until the death of Susannah Peckover in 1903 , after which it was left vacant . The first headmistress was Beatrice Sparks , who was the first woman to complete the Oxford Tripos in mathematics . New schoolrooms were added to the High School in 1906 , 1913 , 1922 and 1936 , when a mixed @-@ use gymnasium and hall was constructed . This hall is now used as the school dining room . Originally , the High School was also able to take boarders , which continued until after World War II . 
