The Grange School | |
Coordinates: | 53.245°N -2.549°W |
Motto: | Latin: E Glande Robur ('From an acorn, an oak') |
Established: | 1933 / 1978 |
Type: | Private day school |
Head Label: | Head |
Head: | Lorraine Earps |
Chair Label: | Chair of Governors |
Chair: | Trevor Brocklebank |
Address: | Bradburns Lane |
City: | Hartford Northwich |
County: | Cheshire |
Country: | England |
Postcode: | CW8 1LU |
Local Authority: | Cheshire West and Chester |
Dfeno: | 896/6005 |
Staff: | 358 |
Enrolment: | 1218 |
Gender: | Co-educational |
Lower Age: | 4 |
Upper Age: | 18 |
Colours: | Green, Teal and Grey |
Houses: | Bollin Dane Gowy Weaver |
Publication: | The Roburian |
Free Label 1: | Head of the Junior School |
Free 1: | Ben Tagg |
Free Label 3: | Former pupils |
Free 3: | Old Roburians |
Free Label 4: | School Hymn |
Free 4: | Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven |
Free Label 2: | Affiliation |
Free 2: | HMC |
Website: | http://www.grange.org.uk |
The Grange School is a private day school near Northwich, Cheshire, England, a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
Founded in 1933 as a preparatory school, in 1978 the school made the unusual progression to the opening of a secondary school and now teaches pupils of all school ages.
The school is divided across two sites; the Junior School and the Senior School and Sixth Form. The Junior school has six forms, for National Curriculum Years 1 to 6, as well as a Reception class. The senior school has First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Forms, for Years 7 to 11, plus a Lower and Upper Sixth Form for Years 12 and 13.[1]
The Junior School is in Beechwood Avenue, Hartford, near Northwich, the Senior School in Bradburns Lane, Hartford.[2] The school has its own theatre, built in 2005 as part of the Senior School campus and named the Grange Theatre. It can be hired for community and conference use.[3] The school also has a £6m purpose-built Sport Centre that is used by the school and the Hartford community.[4]
Extra-curricular activities include music, drama, rowing with the Grange School Rowing Club, and a Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme. There is also a Community Service programme and the school has had a link with a school in the Gambia for many years.[5]
In 2023 there were 157 pupils in the school's Sixth Form.[6] Almost all school leavers progress to higher education.[7] Former pupils are called Old Roburians,[8] from the school's Latin motto, E Glande Robur, meaning "from an acorn, an oak".