Oldham Hulme Grammar School, formerly Hulme Grammar School, is a private

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Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, w ...

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, England.

History

Oldham Grammar School was founded in 1611 by several charitable individuals including Laurence Chadeton, but closed in 1866 and was refounded, under the

Endowed Schools Act 1869 The Endowed Schools Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict c 56) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was one of the Endowed Schools Acts 1869 to 1948. It was passed during William Ewart Gladstone’s first ministry, to restructure endowed gr ...

(hence the claim to be a continuation of this earlier school is debated). The doorway of the original Oldham Grammar School building with its date stone and a window were incorporated into the current school building in the 1920s. When the school was refounded in 1887 it obtained some money from a charitable trust created in 1691 by a bequest from

William Hulme William Hulme (c.1631 – 1691) was an English lawyer and landowner from Lancashire responsible for the creation of the Hulme Trust (also known as Hulme's Charity). Early life The Hulme family's pedigree was recorded by the Heralds in a Vis ...

, after whom the new school was named. The main buildings, incorporating were erected in 1895 by the Hulme Trust. The first headmaster of the new era was Samuel Ogden Andrew, who later achieved acclaim as a translator of Homer. The school was a

direct grant grammar school A direct grant grammar school was a type of selective secondary school in the United Kingdom that existed between 1945 and 1976. One quarter of the places in these schools were directly funded by central government, while the remainder attracted ...

from 1946 until 1976. It reverted to independence with the phasing-out of the Direct Grant scheme, and is now an independent school which selects its students by examination and interview. Fees are in the region of £10 000 a year.

Features

The Principal of the Hulme Grammar Schools is Mr. Antony Oulton. Previously the boys' and girls' schools had separate heads. The boys' head, Mr Kenneth Jones, retired in 2006 which resulted in the executive decision by the governors to appoint a new head of both schools. Dr Paul Neeson was appointed as the first principal of the Oldham Hulme Grammar Schools. Boys and girls are taught separately from the ages of 11 to 16, but there is a joint

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. The combined number of pupils is around 770. There are coeducational junior schools for pupils aged 7 to 11 - "Hulme Court" for the year 3 and 4, and "Estcourt" for the year 5 and 6. There are also mixed nursery and infants classes hosted at 'Thorneycroft'. In recent years the number of admissions to the school has been reduced. Thus up to the mid-1990s the school was admitting 120 boys per year; in recent years the number admitted has been in the 90s, though in 2009, 120 were admitted.Hulme Grammar Schools Year books, 2009-2010

Notable alumni

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Hulme Grammar School
{{authority control Independent schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference Schools in Oldham Diamond schools Hulme Trust

History

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Notable alumni

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