Stafford Grammar School is a mixed independent day school at Burton Manor, located on the outskirts of

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 th ...

, the county town of

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands C ...

. Founded in 1982, the school inhabits a building built by the Victorian architect

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History

The school was founded in 1982 by a group of local parents. It is based in a Victorian manor house, originally designed and built for the Whitgreave family by

. Many of the original design features such as the integrated chapel and the folly are still intact, though neither of these are currently in use. In September 1982, in a leased building, the School was officially opened by its first patron the Right Honourable, the Earl of Shrewsbury. Dr J R Garrood, the first Headmaster, began his first day with 17 pupils and 3 part-time teachers. Since then, the School has grown to over 400 pupils and obtained ownership of its buildings and grounds. The Independent Schools Joint Council accredited the School in 1985 and the Headmaster was elected to the Society of Headmasters and Headmistresses of Independent Schools (SHIMS) in 1991.

Academic performance

According to government school performance indicators, Stafford Grammar School is one of the top schools in Staffordshire. In 2010, 100% of A-level results were at grades A*-E with 68% being at grades A*-B, at AS level 98% of results were at grades A-E with 64% being at grades A-B and 97% of GCSE results were at grades A*-C with 53% being at grades A/A*. 100% of students achieved the benchmark of 5 or more GCSE passes at grades A*-C including English and Mathematics. In the academic year that finished in June 2006 the school was ranked top in Staffordshire based on league table results.

References

External links

School Website
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{{authority control Independent schools in Staffordshire Educational institutions established in 1982 Member schools of the Independent Schools Association (UK) Schools in Stafford 1982 establishments in England