Northlands School was founded in 1920 by two English women, Winifred May Brightman and Muriel Ivy Slater, who had come to Argentina as
governesses. Northlands opened with 16 students, both boys and girls, but three years later it stopped taking boys. In the 1990s the school became co-educational. Since then, Northlands has been run by a
non-profit association: Northlands Asociación Civil de Beneficencia, from whose trustees the first Board of Governors was elected. The School grew, greatly supported by the
Headmistresses who followed the founders. The main buildings at school have been named after them: Brightman, Slater, Wallace and Parczewski, in memory of the work they carried out at Northlands. As of 2016, the two branches of the school have two thousand pupils, 450 teachers and 150 other staff. The school is known for academic excellence. Its motto is “Friendship and Service”. == Notable alumnae ==