St Mary's Catholic School was a

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located in

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, England. The school closed at the end of the academic year in 2010, in preparation for its amalgamation with Matthew Humberstone School to form St Andrew's College, a joint faith school which opened in September 2010. This school was renamed Holy Family Catholic Academy, a solely a Roman Catholic school, but this closed and the site reopened as Beacon Academy in September 2017.

Admissions

St Mary's accepted any student who wished to attend if they respected Catholicism. Two main sources of students were Catholic pupils from two Catholic primary schools - St Mary's on Wellington Street in East Marsh, and St Joseph's on Philip Avenue in

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. Grimsby is in the

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History

St Mary's Secondary School was originally on a site shared with the Junior School and St Mary's Church in Henage Road. In 1965 a new Secondary School was opened and was situated in the middle of the

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council estate in west Grimsby. It closed on 20 July 2010, merging with Matthew Humberstone school to become St Andrew's College in September 2010. St Andrew's College, based at the Matthew Humberstone Upper site on Chatsworth Place, in turn became the Holy Family Catholic Academy, and was again transformed in 2017, this time into the Beacon Academy.

Churches nearby

St Mary's Church is on Heneage Road near St Mary's primary school. There is also St Pius X catholic church catholic church
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Academic results

In 2009 the school came joint 7th in

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, gaining 35% A* - C's. It did not have a sixth form.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Mary's Catholic High School (Grimsby) Defunct schools in the Borough of North East Lincolnshire Schools in Grimsby Defunct Catholic schools in the Diocese of Nottingham Educational institutions disestablished in 2010 2010 disestablishments in England