Nunthorpe Grammar School
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nunthorpe Grammar School was one of two single sex male state grammar schools in the City of York, until the change to a comprehensive system in 1985. The school was centered on Nunthorpe Court, a large Victorian House built in 1856. The house was adapted to meet its new role as a school in 1920.
At first the school was entirely contained within the mansion. Now the house is used purely for offices and staff rooms, the Headteacher’s office being situated in what was the main bedroom. The school was added to at various stages as it grew in popularity. In 1927 a new wing was opened, containing four new classrooms, an art room, two storerooms and a cloakroom. The stableboys’ sleeping quarters from the old house were converted into a new school library. The stables themselves were converted into two laboratories. Even the stable yard was pressed into service. It was roofed over and became the assembly hall, and later still the school’s dining room as it still is to this day. The current hall and the completion of the quadrangle classrooms came in 1937. In 1959 the gym was added as well as what was for the next 25 years to be known as the “new block”, the building containing laboratories and classrooms. A Sixth Form block was added in 1974. In 1984 a new sports hall was built to complete the preparations for the new school, Millthorpe School, which would open the following year. A far cry from the original forty-nine who began their education at Nunthorpe in 1920.
Millthorpe now has 5 blocks A-E and has over 1,100pupils and 200 staff. it teaches a wide range of subject from IT to Manufacturing.
Amongst the more now famous ex-schoolboys are Steve McClaren (England Football Manager), Marco Gabbiadini (Ex Professional Footballer), Vincent Cable (Liberal Democrat MP), Nick Miller (BBC Weather Forecaster) and Doug Cline (Leading Nuclear physicist), David Reeder (Historian of education and town planning).
