Editing Grantham (section)

==Education==
[[File:NewtomMannequin.jpg|thumb|120px|right|Mannequin of Isaac Newton at Grantham Museum]]
[[Grantham College]], a [[further education]] college for the district, opened in 1948, for those not attending school sixth forms. It has a satellite site at Sleaford, Sleaford College.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} Since September 2008 the Walton Academy in Kitty Briggs Lane near Harlaxton Road has run post-16 courses. In September 2019, the school had its first intake of male students in the lower school, making the former all-girls school co-educational.<ref>{{cite web |date=11 March 2018 |title=Boys WILL be going to Walton Girls |url=https://www.granthammatters.co.uk/boys-will-be-going-to-walton-girls/ |access-date=6 October 2019 |website=Grantham Matters }}</ref>

Two notable schools in the district are [[Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School]] and [[The King's School, Grantham|The King's Grammar School]]. Both have large sixth forms and eminent past students. Britain's first female prime minister, [[Margaret Thatcher]], attended Kesteven and Grantham, and [[Isaac Newton]] famously attended The King's. Both have remained single-sex up to the age of 16.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}

In 1970, [[Kesteven|Kesteven County Council]] (based in Sleaford) announced plans to turn the grammar schools into co-educational comprehensives for ages of 11–16 and leave Grantham College the only sixth form for the town. Later it was proposed to create two sixth-form colleges from one of the grammar schools. Other parts of Kesteven became comprehensive but responsibility for education passed to Lincolnshire under the local government reorganization of 1974, and both schools stayed as [[grammar school]]s.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} Ex-pupil Margaret Thatcher was [[Secretary of State for Education and Skills|education secretary]] at the time. The governors of the King's School delayed the process in July 1973, and in January 1975 a plan to make Grantham comprehensive was voted against by the county council, having been approved by the council's own education committee.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

On 1 August 2011 The King's School ended its long relationship with the local elected authorities and the town of Grantham, by converting to a selective academy. It remains a selective boys' school and has kept its name and logo.<ref>{{cite web |title=200 invalid-request |url=http://www.kings.lincs.sch.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=The+King's+School+-+Academy+Status&pid=531 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130718205940/http://www.kings.lincs.sch.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=The+King's+School+-+Academy+Status&pid=531 |archive-date=18 July 2013 |access-date=21 June 2017 |website=www.kings.lincs.sch.uk}}</ref>

All four secondary modern schools are on the outskirts of Grantham. Only three of the six secondary schools are co-educational.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

[[The Priory Ruskin Academy]] (formerly [[Central Technology & Sports College]]) is a co-educational school sited near [[Manthorpe, Grantham|Manthorpe]], this school is part of the wider Priory Federation, which has multiple schools in Lincolnshire and Leicestershire. The Priory Ruskin Academy has a sixth form which open in 2013 at the old Church High School site.

In Gorse Lane is [[Grantham Preparatory School]], an independent school preparing entrants for the 11-plus examination.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} Another private primary school is Dudley House School.<ref>[http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/full/(urn)/120728 "Dudley House School"] Ofsted. Retrieved 19 May 2011.</ref> Near St Wulfram's on Castlegate is the National Church of England Junior School,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaljuniorschool.com|title=The National Church of England Junior School – Home}}</ref> built in 1859, and a [[feeder school]] for the town's grammar schools.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

The Blessed Hugh More School, a Catholic secondary school, closed in 1989.<ref>Blocl.uk site: [https://blocl.uk/schools/blessed-hugh-more-school-129598 Blessed Hugh More School, Retrieved 29 April 2025.]</ref>