Chesham Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school on White Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire. There are about 1200 male and female students aged between eleven and eighteen, including nearly 350 in the sixth form. In 2007 the Department for Education awarded the school specialist school status as a Humanities College. In August 2011 the school became an Academy.
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