Graham School


Graham School is a comprehensive school in the west of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated to the west of the town within of grounds. The school is on Woodlands Drive. The lower site on Lady Edith's Drive closed on 23 June 2017.
Graham School provides for pupils aged 11 to 16

History

The school is named after Mr C C Graham, Mayor of Scarborough between 1913 and 1919.

Grammar school

Prior to 1973, the buildings were used by Scarborough High School for Boys, a boys' grammar school. The present building designed by Keith Scott of Building Design Partnership's Preston office, was built by the North Riding Education Committee in the late 1950s, around the same time as Scarborough Technical College. It had around 700 boys in the early 1970s.
Current state and well being of the school
the school became an academy in 2018, joining the hope learning trust

Comprehensive

Only the first year was all-ability when it opened. Gradually over four years from 1973 it became a comprehensive. The former site of the Scarborough Girls' High School on Sandybed Lane, further to the south, became Scarborough Sixth Form College, although the girls aged under 16 from the school joined the Graham School, with boys from the other grammar school. For the first three years, it was mostly a mixed grammar school than a comprehensive.
In 1975 it took over the former Convent of Our Ladies of Mary High School for Girls, and these buildings became the lower school until 1984. The school at this time had specialist nautical studies courses, which were aimed at pupils wishing to pursue a career at sea.
It gained specialist Science College status in 2004. In 2009 it entered into a federation with Raincliffe School, a nearby secondary school. The Raincliffe School site, Graham School, closed on 23 June 2017.

Notable former teachers

Scarborough High School for Boys

Note that the Graham School took over some of the buildings of the Scarborough Convent School but was not its successor