 Since 1978, the school opened to the daughters of non-freemasons, and the name "Masonic" is a now just reference to its past.It began in 1789 with fifteen pupils and a Matron in Somers Town, St Pancras, Middlesex.During its history, the school has moved between premises three times, twice within London and finally in 1934 to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, where it still is today.