Chesham Grammar School
Chesham Grammar School is a co‑educational academy in White Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire. It has about 1,300 pupils aged 11–18, with over 400 in the sixth form. In 2007 it became a Humanities College, and in August 2011 it joined the Academy program.
The school began in 1947 as Chesham Technical School, created after the 1944 Education Act. It started as an all-boys school in one building (now the sixth form block, the Curtis Centre). It was Chesham Technical High School in 1961, Chesham High School in 1970, and was renamed Chesham Grammar School on 7 May 2010. The school has expanded several times, adding blocks, a new library, and in 2015 expanding the sixth form centre (the Curtis Centre).
In 2014 Ofsted rated the school Outstanding in all categories. Admissions are through Buckinghamshire County Council’s selective system; pupils need 121+ in the 11-plus. The catchment area covers the Chiltern District (Amersham, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter, Chesham, Great Missenden, Little Chalfont) and parts of Hertfordshire, with some pupils travelling from North London by train from Chesham station on the Metropolitan Line.
The school has had pupils invited to the Prime Minister’s Global Fellowship in 2008 and 2009. Overall, pupils have performed well at GCSE and A level.
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