Comprehensive
Local government reforms in 1974 had as a consequence the demise of the Grammar School status of Humberstone Foundation School, and the Clee Road site and buildings were utilised for the newly created Lower Matthew Humberstone Comprehensive School, sharing the name with the Beacon Hill Secondary Modern School, in Chatsworth Place, which became the upper school. They merged in September 1973 to form a comprehensive school. Being outside of the borough of Grimsby (by a few metres), it was controlled by the Lindsey County Council Education Committee, based in Lincoln. It had 1,750 boys and girls, with the headmaster being Mr D Johnston. Less than a year after it was formed, following the revision of county boundaries, it transferred to the administration of the Grimsby Division of Humberside County Council Education Committee. Another upheaval in administration took place when North East Lincolnshire unitary authority was created from the boroughs of Cleethorpes and Great Grimsby on 1 April 1996 on the abolition of Humberside.
In September 2006, the school began using Positive Discipline as its discipline system.
The school used to be on two sites - the former secondary modern and grammar school, being separated by Davenport Drive. This was not of greatest benefit to school administration, and with falling numbers of pupils, the school's students all moved to the upper school site in September 2008. There were plans to merge the school with St Mary's Catholic School on Wootton Road in Nunsthorpe (another low performing school) and have a joint school on the Upper School site at Chatsworth Place. This site was also next to St Joseph's RC Primary School on Philip Avenue.
This former plan was amended and the new 'joint faith' school called St Andrew's College opened in 2012 using the Chatsworth Place site.
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