| Established | 1090 |
|---|---|
| Type | Comprehensive Academy |
| Religion | Christian |
| Headteacher | Andy Wright |
| Specialism | Languages |
| Location | Wragby Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4PN England |
| Local authority | Lincolnshire |
| DfE number | ???/5408 |
| DfE URN | 137447 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1380 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Bluecoats, Minster, Lindum, Greyfriars |
| Colours | Blue, yellow, green, red |
| Former name | Lincoln School, |
| Website | Official website |
Lincoln Christ's Hospital School is a state comprehensive school for 11-18 year olds located on Wragby Road in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
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Its student population is just under 1400, including over 300 in the sixth form. 15% of school pupils receive free school meals.
The school has had Language College status since 2001, and offers teaching in French, Spanish, German, Mandarin Chinese and Russian.[1] The headteacher of the school is Dr Andy Wright, who has a PhD and has been in place since September 2005.
Academic subjects studied include English, Maths, Double and Triple Award Sciences, Modern Languages, History, Geography, RE, Psychology*, Sociology*, Philosophy and Ethics*, and Citizenship. Vocational subjects studied include Music, D & T, Law*, ICT & Business Studies, Photography, and Engineering*.
(*) 6th form only subject.
Hospital schools date from the 13th century as boys' schools for parents who could not afford to pay school fees. They were also known as charity schools or Blue Coat schools. LCHS dates from the 11th century, but the charity school dates from the 17th century.
LCHS used to be two grammar schools with some pupils that boarded. The boys' school was called Lincoln School (dating back to 1090 and also known as Lincoln Grammar School) and using the site on Wragby Road since 1906, and the girls' school was Christ's Hospital Girls' High School (founded in 1893) based on Greestone Place on Lindum Hill. Before 1944, fees were charged.
In 1914, the buildings of Lincoln School were commandeered as a hospital. Lincoln School had many traditions of a public school. The choristers of Lincoln Cathedral were educated at the school until 1944, when it became a state school. Around 1960 a new independent school for the cathedral's choristers was set up in the Deanery House, the Cathedral School for Boys. This would become Lincoln Minster School in 1996, and has since replaced the role that Lincoln School had before 1944.
On 22 July 1941, an RAF Handley Page Hampden crashed into the boarding house of the Girls' High School on Greestone Stairs, killing Miss Edith Catherine Fowle, a French teacher, as well as the occupants of the aircraft. She had taught at the school for twenty one years.[2] By the 1960s the girls' school, a voluntary aided school, had around 550 girls, with 30 in a boarding house.
There is another former Bluecoat School on Christ's Hospital Terrace which opened in 1612 and closed in 1883.
These merged in September 1974 to become a comprehensive school (only the City of Lincoln, of all Lincolnshire district councils, decided to completely change the selection policy at the time). The strict school uniform policy was relaxed at the same time; however, since 2007, blazers and ties have been introduced. Also joining the school were pupils from two former secondary modern schools, St Giles Secondary Modern School for Boys (now a temporary Primary school on Swift Gardens) and Myle Cross Secondary Modern School for Girls (now Chad Varah Primary school on Addison Drive), both formed in 1933.
The Garton Archive, established by Professor Garton, an Old Lincolnian, houses many documents, records, photographs and books which reveal the history of the school.
It gained Language College status in 2001.
It became an Academy in September 2011. However the Academy status is more a funding arrangement than an administration arrangement.
When a grammar school, LCHS would have been the best performing school in Lincoln. As a comprehensive, its results place it in the top five most improved language colleges nationally. It gets GCSE results slightly above average, but A level results below average. Its results are similar to the two comprehensives in North Hykeham.
Several secondary modern schools in Lincolnshire get better or equivalent GCSE results.