| Established | 1940 |
|---|---|
| Type | Other Independent School |
| Location | Beech Avenue Stockport Greater Manchester SK3 8HB England |
| Local authority | Stockport |
| DfE URN | 106145 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 2–17 |
Hillcrest Grammar School in Cale Green, Stockport, Greater Manchester is an independent day school with around 350 pupils aged 2½ to 16. The school was founded as a boys' preparatory school in 1940 in Bramhall. It became co-educational in the 1950s and also started to take pupils up to age 16 and added Grammar to its title. [1] The school moved in 1983 to the former "Stockport High School for Girls" building built in 1910[2] in the Cale Green district of Stockport, close to Davenport railway station. The old part of the building is locally listed. A sports hall with four badminton courts was built in 1994 and a new pre-preparatory department in 2003. A new Preparatory Building with facilities for the Nursery was opened by Olympic Swimmer Michael Rock in October 2009.
Hillcrest is accredited by the Independent Schools Council.[3] The school is owned and operated by a registered charity "Hillcrest Grammar School (Bramhall Educational Trust Limited)",[4] which is also a limited company.[5]
The current headmaster (from 2010) is Jack Williams, a chemistry graduate of the University of Sheffield. Williams was formerly Deputy Headmaster at the School having previously been Senior Housemaster at Leeds Grammar School and Chemistry teacher at Magdalen College School, Oxford. The school is non-denominational and largely non-selective,[2] with admission by interview and assessment.
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Past pupils include TV presenter Yvette Fielding, known especially as the youngest presenter of Blue Peter, former professional footballer Nicky Summerbee, Anabel Kutay, dancer and finalist on BBC's "So you think you can Dance" and Robert Garside[6] the first person to run around the world.
The former Stockport High School for Girls, which was founded in 1894,[7][8] was the inspiration for Dame Joan Bakewell's novel "All the Nice Girls".[9]
Hillcrest pupils, both boys and girls, wear a black blazer with a red braid around the edge and a black tie, crest embedded with gold and red stripes.[10] The school crest consists of a flaming torch with the motto "Ad Lucem".