Royds Hall Academy is a mixed secondary school for pupils aged 11 – 16. It is located in

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, England, and on the north side of the

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towards

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History

Royds Hall was a large farmhouse in the Paddock and Longwood area of Huddersfield, adjoining Royds Wood. It was rebuilt as a grander mansion (still called Royds Hall, but also known as 'Royds Wood'. It was still referred to on the town plan published in 1890 as Royds Hall), whose philanthropic mill owner served the increasingly industrialised and expanding town. The building was formerly Royds Hall Mansion, built in 1866 by Sir

Joseph Crosland Sir Joseph Crosland (24 October 1826 – 27 August 1904) was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for Huddersfield from 4 February 1893 to 13 July 1895. He had contested the seat in the previous three general electi ...

, the Conservative MP for the Huddersfield constituency from 1893–95. On his death in 1904 he left the property to his nephew Thomas Pearson Crosland, who sold it to Huddersfield Corporation in 1915 for £17,000. The Hall served as a military hospital during and after the First World War. Royds Hall Grammar School opened on 20 September 1921,"Royds Hall School History"
/ref> which became a comprehensive school in 1963. In February 2014, the later Royds Hall High School changed its name to Royds Hall Community School.The school is divided into five houses (known as communities) named after

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and

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. Previously a

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administered by

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, in 2018 Royds Hall converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the SHARE Multi Academy Trust.

Notable alumni

Royds Hall Community School

Ruben Reuter Ruben Reuter (born 28 June 2000) is an English actor, best known for his role as Finn McLaine in ''The Dumping Ground''. Early and personal life Reuter was born in Huddersfield to parents Kim Reuter and Russ Elias. Reuter has Down Syndrome and ...

, actor

Royds Hall Grammar School

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scholar * J Margaret Evans (née Hadfield), 1927-35 head girl, junior bursar 1965-1970 and founding fellow, emeritus fellow from 1985 until death in 2001 Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge * Sir Richard Sykes, biochemist, chief executive of Glaxo plc from 1993–97,

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from 2001–08, and chancellor since 2013 of

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