Admissions

Spalding Grammar School admits pupils aged 11 to 18 from the council district of South Holland - an area of 500 square miles (1,300 km²) - some pupils travelling over 20 miles (32 km) to reach the school.^[6]

In years 7 to 11, only boys are admitted. In sixth form (years 12 and 13), both boys and girls are admitted. Spalding Grammar is a selective school, and its entrants in the lower school are permitted only by taking the county-wide 11+ tests. The current number of pupils is 985. The sixth form has 277 pupils. There are 68 teaching staff.^[7]

School site

The school is in the south of Lincolnshire, on Priory Road in Spalding.

A sports hall was opened by boxer Henry Cooper in November 1993. In January 2006 new buildings were opened for ICT, sociology, technology, English and drama (with a performing arts studio). The Modern Languages lab was also built at the same time as the new buildings were opened. In late 2009, a new Business Studies block, new staff room and atrium were also built.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and recognition

In 2015 the school received an Ofsted rating of Grade 4 "Inadequate",^[8] following a previous rating of a Grade 3 "Requires Improvement" in 2011, and "Inadequate" in 2007.^[9] The school converted to academy status on 1 February 2013.^{[citation needed]}

In 2006, the school was granted Specialist Status as a Languages and Engineering College. It became the first school in Lincolnshire to gain joint specialist status in these subjects. Accompanying the specialist status was building work to improve general aspects of the school, and to provide a Language Lab and Engineering Lab for the teaching of the subjects. The school converted to academy status on 1 February 2013.^{[citation needed]}

Notable alumni

• Maurice Johnson (antiquary) (c.1700–5)^[10]
• William Hobson Mills, organic chemist who investigated stereochemistry and found the Mills-Nixon effect^[11]