Senior Management Team
The current Principal and Chief Executive is Michael Gibbons, the previous Headmaster of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield. Mr Gibbons was educated at the City of Leicester Grammar School and gained his degree from King's College London. He is the founder member of the working party for the Forum of Independent Day Schools. Michael took up the office of Principal at the beginning of the Summer Term 2010, formally taking over on 1 April 2010. He announced upon his appointment that "What excited me about GSAL was the prospect of leading a school which combined the best of modernity with a rich and proud heritage. A fabulous new school possessing exceptional facilities allied to a tradition of excellent education built upon generations of endeavour."
The previous Headmaster was Dr. Mark Bailey, a former Rugby Union player and bursar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was appointed Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School in 1999 amid some controversy. Despite this, his tenure as head saw a sharp increase in entrance applications and financial stability, as well as a number of high profile appointments to Senior Management Levels. He led the merger of Leeds Grammar School and Leeds Girls' High School following his appointment as both Headmaster and Chief Executive of the Grammar School at Leeds, in February 2005. He left GSAL in March 2010 to become the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
| Principal and Chief Executive | Mr. Michael R Gibbons |
| Director of Finance | Mr. David Naylor |
| Deputy Head (Pastoral) | Mrs. Christine Bamforth |
| Deputy Head (Academic) | Dr. Ian Hotchkiss |
| Deputy Head (Activities) | Mr. Kevin Carson |
| Deputy Head (Staff Welfare) | Mr. Barry Brindley |
| Deputy Head (Systems) | Mr. Eric Medway |
| Assistant Deputy Head (Pastoral Care) | Mr. C. Freeman |
| Assistant Deputy Head (School Evaluation) | Mr. P. Lunn |
| Head of Junior School | Mr. Robert Lilley |
| Head of Rose Court Nursery & Pre-Prep | Miss. Anne Pickering |
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