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Maltby Community School - Specialising in Business and Enterprise Motto Per Laborem Ad Honorem Established 1931 Type Community school Headteacher Mr David Sutton Specialism Business and Enterprise Location Braithwell Road
Maltby
South Yorkshire
S66 8AB
EnglandLocal authority Rotherham DfE URN 106952 Ofsted Reports Students 1205 Gender Coeducational Ages 11–18 Houses Barts, Bede, Rolleston, York Website Maltby School Coordinates: 53°25′26″N 1°12′31″W / 53.42376°N 1.20868°W
Maltby Community School (MCS) is a comprehensive school in the mining town of Maltby in South Yorkshire.
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Admissions
The (comprehensive) school has a sixth form. The school is below capacity in its numbers. It is situated on Braithwell Road (B6376) close to the junction with the A631. It will become an academy in January 2010. This will involve building a £30m new school by September 2013 called the Maltby Learning Campus.
History
The co-educational Maltby Grammar School (MGS) was established in 1931, being built on the site of Rolleston Hall on Rotherham Road (A631). It was officially opened on (Saturday) 16 April 1932 by Sir Percy Jackson, the Chairman of the West Riding Education Committee. The Maltby Hall Secondary Modern School was on Braithwell Road.
Comprehensive
Buildings were added in the 1960s to prepare the school to become a comprehensive. It became Maltby Comprehensive School, being officially opened on 7 October 1967 by Alan Bullock, the Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. However, it was an incremental change (and possibly less disruptive) to becoming a comprehensive, with the school becoming fully comprehensive by 1974 once all former grammar school intakes had left.
The first (and only) Headmaster of Maltby Grammar School was Gerald Rush - who retired when it became Maltby Comprehensive School
Academic performance
Similar to most schools in Rotherham LEA (and most former coalfield areas), it gets GCSEs under the England average. Maltby's results are comparable to many schools nearby (such as Dinnington). A level results are under the England average but average for Rotherham.
Alumni
Maltby Grammar School
- David Anderson, Labour MP for Blaydon since 2005
- John Jacobs OBE, golfer
- Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham, founder of dfs (retailer)
- John Lowerson, historian[1]
- Ken Sampey, President of NACODS from 1980-5
- Eric Young OBE, High Commissioner to the Seychelles from 1980-3
- Air Vice-Marshal Gordon Young CBE (brother of Eric), Station Commander of RAF Wyton from 1963-5
Maltby Hall Secondary Modern School
- Kevin Barron, Labour MP for Rother Valley since 1983
- Fred Trueman, England and Yorkshire cricketer
References
- ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-lowerson-pioneering-and-radical-historian-of-leisure-and-sport-in-britain-1777159.html John Lowerson Independent August 2009
External links
News items
Categories:- Schools in Rotherham
- Business and Enterprise Colleges in England
- Educational institutions established in 1931
- Comprehensive schools in South Yorkshire
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