Graham School
Graham School is a comprehensive school in the west of Scarborough in North Yorkshire for ages 11-16.
Admissions
It is situated to the west of the town on twenty two acre grounds, next to the hospital and Yorkshire Coast College near Throxenby.
After 16 pupils can attend the Scarborough Sixth Form College as the school has no sixth form.
History
It is named after Mr C C Graham, the Mayor of Scarborough between 1913-9.
Grammar school
Previous to 1973, the buildings were used by Scarborough High School for Boys, a boys' grammar school. The present building was built by the North Riding Education Committee in the late 1950s, around the same time of Scarborough Technical College (now called Yorkshire Coast College). It had around 700 boys in the early 1970s.
Comprehensive
Only the first year was all-ability when it opened. Gradually over four years from 1973 it became a comprehensive. The former site of the Scarborough Girls' High School on Sandybed Lane, further to the south, became Scarborough Sixth Form College, although the girls aged under 16 from the school joined the Graham School with boys from the other grammar school. For the first three years, it was mostly a mixed grammar school than a comprehensive.
In 1975 it took over the former Convent of Our Ladies of Mary High School for Girls, and these buildings became the lower school until 1984.
It gained specialist science status in 2004. In 2009 it entered a federation with Raincliffe School, another nearby secondary school.
Academic results
The school achieves GCSE results at the England average.
Former teachers
Alumni
Scarborough High School for Boys
- Ray Bloom, cricketer
- Richard Caton CBE, worked on brain waves
- Prof John Christian, important metallurgist, and Professor of Physical Metallurgy from 1967-88 at the University of Oxford
- Clive Clark, golfer and commentator
- David Comins, Rector from 1994-2005 of Glasgow Academy
- John Dyde CBE, Chairman from 1959-69 of Eastern Gas Board, and President from 1951-2 of the Institution of Gas Engineers
- Prof Kenneth Dyson, Professor at Cardiff University
- Fred Feast, actor, most notably in Coronation Street
- Gilbert Gray, Queen's Counsel, Recorder at the Old Bailey between 1972 and 1998
- Very Rev Robert Tinsley Holtby
- Geoff Hoyle, actor and entertainer
- John Jarvis CVO CBE, Chief Executive from 1990-2002 of Ramada Jarvis hotels
- Prof John David Kennedy, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Leeds
- Harvey McGregor, Warden from 1985-96 of New College, Oxford
- David McLintock, German translator
- Prof John Mollon, Professor of Visual Neuroscience since 1998 at the Hoe University of Cambridge
- Bill Nicholson (footballer), player and manager of Tottenham Hotspur F.C., most notably managing the club to The Double in season 1960/61
- Michael Ost, Group Chief Executive from 1997-9 of Coats Viyella
- Robert Palmer (singer)
- Harvey Proctor, Conservative MP from 1979-83 for Basildon, and from 1983-7 for Billericay
- Denis Saunders, footballer and schoolmaster
- Prof Sydney Swanson, Professor of Biomechanics from 1974-97 at Imperial College London
- John Taylor, former news reporter for London Weekend Television
- Peter Taylor (journalist), writer and documentary maker
- Ian Wilmut OBE , embryologist, led the team responsible for cloning the sheep, Dolly, works at the University of Edinburgh
- Sir John Foster Wilson CBE (blinded at the age of 12 in a school chemistry experiment), went on to found the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
- Michael Wilson (presenter), former business editor for Sky News
- Kevin Young CBE, Vice president of commercial operations at Gilead Sciences
Convent of Our Ladies of Mary High School for Girls
Scarborough Girls' High School
Graham School Science College
- Nick Bagnall, actor and Theatre director, most notably in Coronation Street and Guys and Dolls
- James Briggs, rower, has represented England
- Joy Brook, actress, most notably in The Bill and Peak Practice
- Michael Coulson (footballer)
- Craig Farrell (rugby league), many clubs including Hull F.C. & Hull Kingston Rovers
- Paul Ingle, International Boxing Federation, featherweight world champion
- Jason Payne, rugby league, mostly for Gateshead Thunder
- Tim Sheader, artistic director at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
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