The Skegness Grammar School
 |
|
| Motto |
Latin: Murus Aeneus Conscientia Sana (A sound conscience is a wall of brass) |
|---|---|
| Established | 1483; 1933 at current site |
| Type |
Grammar school Academy Day and boarding school |
| Headteacher | Sprague |
| Founder | William de Waynflete |
| Location |
Vernon Road Skegness Lincolnshire PE25 2QS England Coordinates: 53°08′56″N 0°20′02″E / 53.1490°N 0.3340°E |
| DfE number | 925/5400 |
| DfE URN | 138757 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 760 pupils (366 boys, 394 girls) |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–19 (in certain cases) |
| Houses | Lumley Magdalen Newton Tennyson |
| Colours | Bottle Green and Gold |
| Website | www |
Skegness Grammar School (sometimes SGS) is a coeducational grammar school and sixth form with academy status, located in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England.
Selection to the school is by the eleven-plus examination or, in the case of boarders, by entry test or personal interview. The school roll consists of 760 pupils including 204 pupils in the sixth form. It provides boarding facilities for about 70 pupils who do not live locally, or whose parents are required to work away from Lincolnshire or abroad.
Skegness Grammar School was founded over 500 years ago by a Lord High Chancellor of England. It was the first British secondary school to be awarded Grant Maintained status by the government in 1988. The school has been classed as a High Performing Specialist School, due to the progress the pupils have made over the five years of compulsory education in years 7 to 11. Formal evaluation of recent Sixth Form results shows that the school has established and maintained excellent teaching standards that have led to high levels of progress.
In 1483 William Waynflete, also called William of Wainfleet, later the Bishop of Winchester, Provost of Eton College and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain founded Magdalen College School in his home town of Wainfleet to act as a satellite feeder school for Magdalen College at Oxford University that he had also founded.
In 1933 Magdalen College School closed and was incorporated into its newer and larger buildings at Skegness where it became Skegness Grammar School.
The school is organised into four houses all named after historically prominent people or famous Lincolnshire men:
...
Wikipedia