Grangefield School

Grangefield School and Technology College is a Technology College located on Oxbridge Avenue, Grangefield, Stockton-on-Tees, England. It is opposite Stockton Cricket Club.

History

The school dates back to 1894, however the current site is the former Grangefield Grammar School opened in the present buildings on 2 November 1951. Previous to this, from 1944, it was in different buildings as the Stockton Secondary Grammar School, and Stockton Secondary School since 1906. The boys and girls lessons were taught separately, with separate heads of school. It became comprehensive in 1973, and called The Grange Comprehensive School, until 1985.

Hardwick Secondary Modern School, founded in 1963, became Sheraton Comprehensive School in 1973. This merged with The Grange Comprehensive School in 1985 to become Grangefield School.

Academic performance

It gets above average results at GCSE. It does not have a sixth form.

Previous Alumni

Stockton Secondary School

• Sir Charles Allison CBE
• William Arthur Bone, combustion engineer, and Professor of Chemical Technology at Imperial College London from 1912–36
• Air Vice-Marshal John Embling CBE DSO
• Horace Maybray King, Baron Maybray-King, Labour MP for Southampton Test from 1950-5 and Southampton Itchen from 1955–71 and Speaker of the British House of Commons from 1965–71
• Lieutenant Colonel Ken Scott
• Peter Smithson, architect
• Prof Keith Stewartson, Goldsmid Professor of Mathematics at University College London from 1964–83
• Sir Maurice Sutherland, Leader of Cleveland County Council from 1973-7
• Barry Unsworth, novelist

Grangefield Grammar School

• Pat Barker CBE, author who wrote the historical novel Regeneration, and wife of zoologist David Barker
• Hugh Cameron, cyclist
• James Gaddas, actor
• Charlie Gillett, musicologist, radio presenter and writer
• Raymond and John Gill, founders of ACM Instruments
• David Ingman CBE, Chairman of the British Waterways Board from 1987–93
• Len Porter, Chief Executive of the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) since 2003
• Ridley Scott, film director
• Tony Scott, film director
• Bruce Thomas, bassist in The Attractions
• Prof David Webb, Professor of Finance at the LSE, and Director since 1991 of the Financial Markets Group Research Centre

External links

• School website
• EduBase
• Old pictures of the former school
• The Old Stocktonians Association with school transition history