Caistor Grammar School is a selective school and academy in the English town of Caistor in the county of Lincolnshire. It was founded in 1630, and has since grown to be one of the most respected and high performing schools in the East Midlands. The school has been awarded specialist sports and humanities status. The current headmaster is Roger Hale, who took up the position from Trevor Foulkes in 1996. At present, Caistor Grammar is ranked first in Lincolnshire according to GCSE and A Level results in 2012. It has gained 100% 5 A* to C grades for the last three years running and has topped Lincolnshire A level tables for the last nine years. In December 2010, as part of new government scheme to award high performing, outstanding schools, Caistor Grammar School changed from a foundation school to an academy.
Read more about Caistor Grammar School: History, School Buildings, Departments and Curriculum, Entry Exam, Houses, Uniform, Notable Former Pupils, Ofsted
Famous quotes containing the words grammar school, grammar and/or school:
“I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)
“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity that school stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word.... How marvelous it would have been to go to a women’s college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)