Co-op Academy Grange is a

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located in south

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, England.

History

Grammar school

The school was originally known as Grange High School, becoming Grange Boys' Grammar School and Grange Girls' Grammar School.

Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive school.

Academy

Grange Technology college became an academy in 2013. The college went through a transitional period in 2011 where it moved to a new advanced facility managed by

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, the investment reportedly costing around 50 million pounds. The transition oversaw the conjoining of two educational institutes into what is now Southfield Grange, Southfield school and Grange Technology College now both exist a
Co-op academies
now having joined the Co-op Academies Trust recently in 2019.

Admissions

It is currently over-subscribed and serves over 1,850 pupils (with over 300 in the sixth form) from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. The majority of pupils are of South Asian heritage. The current (2016) headteacher is Ms Mander. In May 2023

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rated the school as "inadequate".

Facilities

In June 2011 Grange moved into their new building which is shared by Southfield Special School. The name of both schools were combined to create the campus known as Southfield Grange.

Notable former pupils

Grange Boys' Grammar School

Stanley Ellis (linguist) Stanley Ellis (18 February 1926 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire – 31 October 2009 in Harrogate) was an English linguistics scholar and broadcaster, and an authority on English regional dialects. Born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorksh ...

* Edward Petherbridge, actor, married to the actress

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Peter Harrison (rugby player) Peter Harrison was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s who played rugby union (RU) for Bradford RFC, as a prop, i.e. number 1 or 3. Early life Peter Harrison was born at Coal House Nursing Home in Odsal, ...

Arthur Tiley Arthur Tiley (17 January 1910 – 5 June 1994) was a British businessman and Conservative and National Liberal politician. Upon the re-creation of the Bradford West constituency in 1955, Tiley was elected as its Member of Parliament. He held th ...

CBE, Conservative MP from 1955 to 1966 for

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, rugby player Billie Whitelaw & Hugh Griffith (1970)

Grange Girls' Grammar School

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Grange Upper School

* Tasmin Archer, musician known for 1992 ''

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References

External links

Grange Technology College
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