Present Day
The school was recently awarded International Schools Award on account of its links with schools in: France, South Korea, Taiwan, and Ethiopia. The school is also host to the Dover Extended Schools (DES) team, offering a Saturday morning academy for primary and secondary school pupils in a range of languages, arts, and sciences. Other quality marks the school holds include: Teacher Learning Academy Centre, EcoSchools and Healthy Schools.
The sporting achievements are extremely good with football, rugby and cricket teams winning County and District competitions on a regular basis. Athletics take place in the summer. The school has an undersized basketball court in the gym, the enlargement of which is a long-standing ambition. American football and softball have also been played at the school, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s when the teaching staff included Major Huron, USAF Rtd.
The school has close links with Dover Grammar School for Girls (DGGS) sharing A-Level students in a number of subjects, as part of the Dover Sixth Form Consortium, which enables A-level students of all Dover schools to attend lessons in each member school. Dover Grammar School for Boys also offers the IB Diploma (International Baccelaureate) the first school in the Kent area to offer both A Level and IB diploma qualifications.
GCSE results are good, with the percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more grades A* - C increasing from 91% in 2002 to 100% in 2005, falling to 97% in 2006.. The equivalent result for 2009 was 99%. The school's results are on a general positive trend upwards: (http://www.dovergramboys.kent.sch.uk/joomla15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54:exam-results-2009&catid=1:latest-news). University entry levels are good, with recent students gaining entrance to: Durham, Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol, Warwickshire College, Reading, Winchester and King's College London.
During May 2009, four sixth form students, Patrick Holmes, Jay Crush, James Fowler and Daniel Brett, funded the opening of the Brian Haines Suite, formally known as L7 (and previously room 17). This was to commemorate the exceptional amount of time that Brian Haines had served the school, from 1971 to 2009. It was decided that Brian Haines' dedication to the school earned this honour and it was left up.
The school also has a highly successful Combined Cadet Force (CCF) with approximately 50 members which is open to anybody from the age of 13 from the surrounding area.
Dover Grammar School for Boys is currently developing the HEdSTART programme; an innovative approach to teaching and learning at Post 16.
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