Stretford Grammar School

Stretford Grammar School is a selective state school in the borough of Trafford, England. Until its merger in 1986 with Stretford Grammar School for Boys, it was known as Stretford Grammar School for Girls. The boy's grammar school then became Stretford High School, a comprehensive school.

The school has a sixth form in addition to years 7 to 11. Over 65% of the school's pupils are from minority ethnic backgrounds, and approximately a 40% of all pupils have a first language other than English, significantly above the national average.cite web
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Academically the school is largely above national averages, with 94% of pupils achieving A*-C in at least 5 GCSEs (including English and Maths).BBC - School League Tables.] The school was assessed as "satisfactory" in its March 2006 Ofsted report.

The school's crest is embroidered on blazers and jumpers. The original crest, designed by pupils in the late 1990s, consisted of a shield featuring a globe and books, with a fist clenching lightning, taken from the Stretford coat of arms. The motto beneath read "Power through Knowledge". That crest was replaced by a maroon circle containing the school's initials, in lower case: when the school was awarded Science College status in 2005, the logo was altered to include a symbolic atom above the initials.

Daykin and Porter, the headmaster and maths master of Stretford Boys Grammar School in the 1930s, were the authors of one of the definitive school maths books of the day.

Notable alumni

Actor Ian McShane and singer Peter Noone, of "Herman's Hermits", were pupils at Stretford Grammar school, as was Ernest Marples, UK Conservative Minister of transport from 1959 to 1964. Marples was responsible for introducing parking meters, yellow no-parking lines and motorways. [D. J. Dutton "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford University Press, 2007]

Ex-Manchester City footballers Jonathan and Nathan D'Laryea and Adie Mike are also former pupils.Fact|date=February 2008

References

External links

* Stretford Grammar School [http://www.stretfordgrammar.com]