Sir Graham Balfour School is a

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and

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located in

Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in t ...

, England. It is named after

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, son of the Victorian statistician, who became Director of Education in Staffordshire. The original school was demolished in 2001, with the new school building being constructed and completed in 2002. It achieved specialist Maths and Computing School status from September 2006. The school converted to academy status in September 2016. As of June 2021, the school is building a new set of classrooms, behind the sports hall, which will soon be where modern foreign languages (French, Spanish and German) will be taught. Sir Graham Balfour School also offers post-16 education. The sixth form is an integral part of the Stafford Collegiate which involves all Stafford High Schools and Stafford College. On 22 July 2016 David Wright retired as Head Teacher and Lesley Beck took over.

Controversy

In May 2005, then-headteacher David Hill banned charity wristbands due to uniform regulations. This resulted in some students protesting on the school tennis grounds. Police were called after students began leaving the school grounds. Hill later retracted the ban on the bands.

Notable alumni

* Morgan Gibbs-White - Professional football player for

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team Nottingham Forest and England under-21s. Also won the 2017 FIFA Under-17 World Cup with

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. *

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in the

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. * Freya Copeland - Actor, character 'Angie Reynolds' in

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References

External links

Official website
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