Urmston Grammar, known as Urmston Grammar School until September 2010, is a co-educational grammar school in Urmston

Urmston

Urmston is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of around 41,000. Historically a part of Lancashire, it lies about six miles to the southwest of Manchester city centre. The southern boundary is marked by the River Mersey and the...

, Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

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, England. It is a state school within Trafford

Trafford

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 Local Authority. The school was assessed as "outstanding" in its 2008 Ofsted

Office for Standards in Education

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 report. In 2010 60% of all examinations sat were awarded either A* or A grade for GCSE.

History

Urmston Grammar was awarded specialist Science College

Science College

Science Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, science and mathematics...

 status in 2004. In 2007 it was awarded High Performing Specialist College status, and as from April 2008 Language College

Language College

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 status as a second specialism. Urmston Grammar converted to academy status as of September 2010, since when it has been known as Urmston Grammar Academy. Urmston Grammar is in the top 100 list of grammar schools; in the English Baccalaureate the school appeared 55th in the list of state schools in England.

Academic performance

The majority of the school's pupils go on to higher education; in the 2005 academic year, 90% went on to university.

Urmston Grammar's most recent Ofsted report (2008) graded the school as "outstanding".

Notable former pupils

• Air Vice-Marshal
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   Steven Chisnall CB
  Order of the Bath
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  , Station Commander of RAF Halton
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   1998–99
• Kenneth Entwistle, Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science at UMIST 1962–90
• William Hall, Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Manchester
  University of Manchester
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   1959–86 and pioneer of the British nuclear power industry
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• Stephen Hesford
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  , MP
• Paul Honeyford
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  , biographer and linguist
• Keith Hopwood
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  , guitarist with Herman's Hermits
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• Judy Loe
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  , actress and mother of Kate Beckinsale
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• Ray Lowry, cartoonist, illustrator and satirist
• Sir Patrick Russell
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  , high court judge and Lord Justice