Kirkby Stephen Grammar School

Kirkby Stephen Grammar School is a coeducational comprehensive secondary school. It is an academy and has a sixth form. It is located in Kirkby Stephen in the English county of Cumbria.^[1]

Kirkby Stephen Grammar School
Location
Christian Head Kirkby Stephen Cumbria , CA17 4HA England
Coordinates	54.47425°N 2.35414°W / 54.47425; -2.35414
Information
Type	Comprehensive Academy
Mottoes	Dio volendo io lo faro (Translation: God willing I will do it) Together we will achieve our potential
Established	1566; 459 years ago (1566)
Founder	Baron Thomas Wharton
Local authority	Westmorland and Furness
Department for Education URN	137107 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Gary Hartley
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	347
Capacity	545
Website	http://www.ksgs.cumbria.sch.uk/

The school was founded in 1566 by Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton, under letters patent granted by Queen Elizabeth I. Although it has retained the grammar school in its name, Kirkby Stephen became a comprehensive school in 1959 and converted to academy status in 2011.

Kirkby Stephen Grammar School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and vocational courses.

Notable former pupils

• John William Cameron, brewer

See also

• List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)