Liskeard grammar school
| Motto | Achieving More Together |
|---|---|
| Established | 1550; and then re-founded in 1979. |
| Closed | 1834, but re-opened, and then later merged. |
| Head Teacher | Alex Lingard |
| Location |
Liskeard School Luxstowe Liskeard PL14 3EA  Cornwall
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| Staff | 200 |
| Students | c. 1100 Students - Including Sixth Form |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 50°27′18″N 4°28′34″W / 50.455°N 4.476°W
Liskeard School and Community College, or LSCC, is an educational secondary school and sixth form with former engineering specialist status, located in Liskeard, Cornwall twenty-one miles from Plymouth, England. Liskeard Grammar School dates back to 1550, when it was founded during the reformation by the Protestant King Edward VI, who ordered a grammar school be opened in every town in England. In its most recent incarnation it was originally known as the County School, and was built by the Cornwall Education Committee. It opened in Old Road, Liskeard in 1908. The school song reflected its location "at the foot of Cornish Moorland". In 1945, its name was changed to Liskeard Grammar School. It closed in 1978. Travers was the headmaster in the 1950s and, from about 1960 to 1976, the headmaster was John W Lingard.
The first school in Liskeard was founded in 1550 on Castle Hill, later site of a Civil War battlefield. For a time it was maintained by the Earls of St Germans, but it closed around 1834 due to a decline in numbers and financial difficulties. From 1835 a series of private schools existed in the borough, until 1908 when Cornwall Education Committee built the County School at Old Road. From 1945 it was known as Liskeard Grammar School until September 1978 when it became the Lower School site of Liskeard School, following amalgamation with the town's secondary modern school.
Liskeard County Secondary School received its first pupils on Monday 12 September 1960, and was formally opened by the Minister of Education, Sir David Eccles on 7 July the following year. Costing £100,000, it was built to accommodate around 500 pupils on the site of the current school at Luxstowe. Its glass and steel structure made "free use of fresh air and sunlight" according to local newspaper reports, whilst other modern features included a well-equipped gymnasium, automated central heating and synchronised clocks across the school, operated from the secretary's office. A new block was opened by the Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher, Secretary of State for Education and Science in 1974, following the raising of the school leaving age from 15 years to 16, two years earlier. Like many similar secondary schools in Cornwall, from the late 1970s it housed the Upper School (3rd Year / Year 9 upwards), when it merged with the town's grammar school to create a split-site comprehensive school.
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