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The Crossley Heath School

The Crossley Heath School
Crossley Heath Crest James Garner.png
Motto Omne Bonum Ab Alto
(All good things come from above)
Established 1985 (in current form)
Heath Grammar School (1585)
Crossley and Porter School (1887)
Type Grammar academy
Headteacher Wendy Moffat
Chair of Governors S. Whitson
Location Savile Park
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX3 0HG
England
53°42′42″N 1°52′41″W / 53.7116°N 1.878°W / 53.7116; -1.878Coordinates: 53°42′42″N 1°52′41″W / 53.7116°N 1.878°W / 53.7116; -1.878
Local authority Calderdale Borough Council
DfE number 381/5401
DfE URN 139182 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1044
Gender Co-educational (Mixed)
Ages 11–18
Houses Porter
Savile
Kings
Queens
Colours Black and Gold          
Website The Crossley Heath School

The Crossley Heath School is a mixed selective grammar school with academy status located on Skircoat Moor Road, Savile Park, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, with 984 pupils aged from 11 to 18, and 214 students in its sixth form.

The Crossley Heath School was founded in 1985 as an amalgamation of the Crossley and Porter School and Heath Grammar School.

Heath Grammar School, Free School Lane, Halifax, West Yorkshire was founded in 1585 by Dr John Favour. Its full title was The Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth. Henry Farror and his brother gave 2 acres (8,100 m2) of land in Skircoat Green and personally obtained the school charter from Elizabeth I of England at his own expense. Dr Favour became the Vicar of Halifax in 1593.

In 1857 Frank (later Sir Francis Crossley, 1st Baronet) and John Crossley, of Dean Clough Mills, founded an orphanage through capital of £56,000 and a further endowment of £50,000. In 1887, after a gift of £50,000 from Thomas Porter, a Manchester yarn merchant, the orphanage was extended to include schooling. Over time, the need for an orphanage decreased and the school became a grammar school. The building was designed by John Hogg, a local architect.

At the time of the 1881 census, Head master William Cambridge Barber, assisted by a Matron, Head mistress, and 8 assistant masters and mistresses, presided over a population of 216 "scholar orphans." They included 84 girls and 132 boys, ranging in age from 7 to 16. They were mostly English born, but included a few Irish as well as children from as far away as Australia.

A Royal Charter of 31 January 1887, named the institution The Crossley and Porter Orphan Home and School. In 1919 the school was given royal permission to admit day pupils.

There were two sections - the Crossley and Porter Boys' School, with around 300 boys, and the Crossley and Porter Girls' School, with around 450 girls, administered by the County Borough of Halifax. In 1967, it became the co-educational Crossley and Porter School with around 800 girls and boys.


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