Chesham High School
Chesham Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school on White Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire. There are about 1200 male and female students aged between eleven and eighteen, including nearly 350 in the sixth form. In 2007 the Department for Education awarded the school specialist school status as a Humanities College. In August 2011 the school became an Academy.HistoryThe school was founded in 1947 as the Chesham Technical School - a result of the Education Act 1944 which set up the tripartite arrangements of grammar, technical and secondary modern schools. The all-boys school was originally housed in only one building, which is now the sixth form block known as "Tringwood". In 1961, the school became known as Chesham Technical High School and during the 1960s, there was huge development in the area, and it became a co-educational grammar school. In 1970, the school changed its name to Chesham High School as it moved away from its technical roots. The name of the school changed to Chesham Grammar School on 7 May 2010. It is as a Grammar School that CGS has seen considerable expansion, improved results and has carved its niche as a co-educational selective school.HeadmastersSidney Chapman 1947-1966 Paddy Evans 1966-1967 Ken Stokes 1967-1992 Tim Andrew 1992-2007 Nigel Fox 2005-2006 Philip Wayne 2007–present Over the last couple of decades, there has been major expansion of the school, including a new maths block, a textiles block, an art block, expansion of the English block, a new library, and a new drama/psychology block. There is now a new technology/art building built over what was A1, the main art room. A leisure centre has been added, where once a number of the old prefab buildings stood.
