Lord Grey School

Coordinates: 52°00′00″N 0°45′00″W / 52.000°N 0.750°W / 52.000; -0.750

Lord Grey School
Motto Aspire, Learn, Achieve
Established 1973
Type Foundation
Headteacher Dr Tracey Jones
Chair Alicja Tomey
Location Rickley Lane
Bletchley
Milton Keynes

Buckinghamshire
MK3 6EW
England
Local authority Milton Keynes
DfE URN 110531 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1,378
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Houses Colossus, Enigma, Lorenz, Mercury & Ultra
Colours Dark Green
Website www.lordgrey.org.uk

Lord Grey School is a comprehensive co-educational foundation secondary school in West Bletchley, Milton Keynes.

General Information

Lord Grey has five school houses: Lorenz, Enigma, Mercury, Ultra and Colossus, representing the code breaking machines in Bletchley Park.

History

Lord Grey School opened in 1973 as a community comprehensive school following the amalgamation of Bletchley Grammar and Wilton Secondary schools. New accommodation was provided to supplement the existing facilities. The school was incorporated as a Grant Maintained School on 1 April 1993 and moved to Foundation status on 1 September 1999, under the New Framework for Schools. More recently, the school has enjoyed considerable success:

1998 – 2002

2003 – 2005

2006 – 2008

2009 – present day

Ofsted 2012

The Ofsted criteria changed in September 2012, and the Department for Education, on instruction from the government, ‘raised the bar’ on the standards needed to achieve certain, and favourable, results. This had the effect of the criteria for achievement becoming much more rigorous and harder to get. This will apply to all schools eventually; Lord Grey was inspected in the sixth week of the new system, and so did not achieve a level as high as ones in previous years.

Sixth Form

Lord Grey 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 further BTECs. Previously sixth form education was offered in collaboration with Sir Herbert Leon Academy. Titled Milton Keynes South Sixth Form, qualifications were taught over the two school sites. However Lord Grey School began to offer its own independent sixth form provision for students from September 2014.

Notable former pupils

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