| Lady Lumley's School | |
| Coordinates: | 54.2516°N -0.7839°W |
| Motto: | Deo, Regi, Patriae (For God, King, Country) |
| Type: | Academy |
| Trust: | Coast and Vale Learning Trust |
| Head: | Clair Foden |
| Founder: | Lady Lumley |
| Address: | Swainsea Lane |
| City: | Pickering |
| County: | North Yorkshire |
| Country: | England |
| Postcode: | YO18 8NG |
| Local Authority: | North Yorkshire |
| Urn: | 148602 |
| Ofsted: | yes |
| Enrolment: | 1,253 pupils |
| Lower Age: | 11 |
| Upper Age: | 18 |
| Gender: | Coeducational |
| Website: | https://www.ladylumleys.coastandvale.academy/ |
Lady Lumley's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England.[1] It was founded in Thornton-le-Dale in 1670.[2]
It was endowed by deed of Frances, Viscountess Lumley, an ancestor of the Earl of Scarborough, in 1657, and the buildings completed in about 1680.[3] [4]
It has school links worldwide, particularly within Tanzania, Morocco, China and France.[5]
The school has been awarded Sportsmark 2008, an iNET qualification, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, a British Schools Orienteering award and was classified as a Healthy School.
In 2019, the Ofsted Inspection Report rated Lady Lumley's school as inadequate.[6]
The current co-educational school was originally two single-sex grammar schools, one in Thornton-le-Dale and one on Middleton Road in Pickering, both called Lady Lumley's Grammar School.[7] They were amalgamated in 1904/05, on the Pickering site.[7] [8] [9] In 1864, the school at Thornton had 26 pupils, all boys.[8]
During the Second World War, pupils from Middlesbrough High School for Girls were evacuated to Pickering, and shared the school with the Lady Lumley's pupils.[10]
In the 1940s, pupils carried out an archaeological excavation of the nearby mediaeval hospital of St Nicholas.
In the first half of the twentieth century, the then headmaster of the school, F Austin Hyde, was an expert on the dialect of the area.[11]
Previously a community school administered by North Yorkshire County Council, in May 2021 Lady Lumley's School converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Coast and Vale Learning Trust.[12]