Lawrence Sheriff School
| Established | 1878 |
|---|---|
| Type |
Grammar school; Academy |
| Headteacher | Peter Kent |
| Deputy Head | Gwen Temple |
| Founder | Lawrence Sheriff |
| Location |
Clifton Road Rugby Warwickshire CV21 3AG England Coordinates: 52°22′17″N 1°15′20″W / 52.3713°N 1.2555°W |
| Local authority | Warwickshire County Council |
| DfE number | 937/4620 |
| DfE URN | 141277 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 863 |
| Gender | Male only |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Caldecott, Simpson, Tait and Wheeler |
| Colours | Navy and white |
| Publication | The Weekly Word, LSS Griffin |
| Website | lawrencesheriffschool |
Lawrence Sheriff School is a boys' grammar school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. The school is named after Lawrence Sheriff, the Elizabethan man who founded Rugby School. The school's name is often shortened to 'LSS', or often just 'Sheriff' by boys at the school. In an OFSTED inspection the school achieved 'outstanding' in all fields of inspection. The school runs in partnership with Rugby High School for Girls, the local all-female grammar school.
Lawrence Sheriff School was founded to fulfill Laurence Sheriff's original intentions to provide a school for the boys of Rugby and neighbouring Brownsover, which was originally carried out by Rugby School. By the eighteenth century, Rugby School had acquired a national reputation as a public school and moved to its present site.
As the proportion of pupils from outside Rugby increased and the people of the town seemed to benefit less from Lawrence Sheriff's original bequest, local concern led to the nineteenth-century proposal of a Lower School for local boys, with Foundation Scholarships to the Great School. The Lower School was opened in 1878 on the present site of Lawrence Sheriff School with a curriculum designed to meet the needs of a commercial education and preparation for Rugby School. By 1906, a compromise between the traditions of the Foundation and a proposal to hand the school over to the county, led to a Governing body chaired by the Headmaster of Rugby School and containing both Foundation and County Governors. The school was built on what before was glebe land named Market Field, at what was the east limit of the built-up area of Rugby.
Under its second headmaster, Weisse (who renamed himself Whitehouse when World War I started), a small incident caused a lasting effect on the area. To enlarge the school's sports area, he planned to buy a larger area of glebe land, Reynolds Field, west of the school land. But, as he was going down Bath Road in a carriage towards the railway station to go to Oxford to buy the land, the horse veered to the left and the carriage hit a lamppost; the horse panicked and the carriage overturned and Weisse was spilt out on the road, cutting his eye on glass from a broken carriage lamp. This event forced Weisse to miss the meeting, which was never rearranged for later, and the school never bought the land (except Penrhos House much later). The land later became Moultrie Road and Elsee Road in Rugby.
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