Clitheroe Royal Grammar School

Clitheroe Royal Grammar School is a co educational grammar school in the town of Clitheroe in Lancashire, England, formerly an all-boys school. It was founded in 1554 as "The Free Grammar School of King Philip and Queen Mary" "for the education, instruction and learning of boys and young men in grammar; to be and to continue for ever. "After forty two years of sharing the school buildings with the boys, the newly built Girls Grammar School opened in 1957, and merged with the Boys Grammar School in 1985. CRGS celebrated its 450th anniversary in July 2004, an event marked by the planting of a tree by HRH The Duke of York. The same time, Mr Stuart Holt retired as headteacher, having started in 1991. He announced his retirement in October 2003. After becoming a Grant Maintained School in September 1991, Clitheroe Royal Grammar School became a Foundation School with a Foundation under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Most recently, on 1 January 2011, the school converted to Academy School Status under the Academies Act 2010. Clitheroe Royal Grammar School continues to thrive on two sites, with the Sixth Form Centre occupying the historic buildings on York Street, and the Main School at the former Girls Grammar School buildings on Chatburn Road. IntakeThe Main School intake each year is 120 children, who have each reached the required standard in the School's entrance examination, with places being offered preferentially to candidates living within the School's defined 'Catchment Area'. These are then divided into four forms (C, R, G and S), of thirty pupils each.

Clitheroe Royal Grammar School is a co educational grammar school in the town of Clitheroe in Lancashire, England, formerly an all-boys school. It was founded in 1554 as "The Free Grammar School of King Philip and Queen Mary" "for the education, instruction and learning of boys and young men in grammar; to be and to continue for ever. "After forty two years of sharing the school buildings with the boys, the newly built Girls Grammar School opened in 1957, and merged with the Boys Grammar School in 1985. CRGS celebrated its 450th anniversary in July 2004, an event marked by the planting of a tree by HRH The Duke of York. The same time, Mr Stuart Holt retired as headteacher, having started in 1991. He announced his retirement in October 2003. After becoming a Grant Maintained School in September 1991, Clitheroe Royal Grammar School became a Foundation School with a Foundation under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Most recently, on 1 January 2011, the school converted to Academy School Status under the Academies Act 2010. Clitheroe Royal Grammar School continues to thrive on two sites, with the Sixth Form Centre occupying the historic buildings on York Street, and the Main School at the former Girls Grammar School buildings on Chatburn Road. IntakeThe Main School intake each year is 120 children, who have each reached the required standard in the School's entrance examination, with places being offered preferentially to candidates living within the School's defined 'Catchment Area'. These are then divided into four forms (C, R, G and S), of thirty pupils each.