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Clitheroe Royal Grammar School

Selective

National rank

158

171

Rank last year

61.2^%

A-level

67.7^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher James Keulemans

Attendance 95.9%

Gender of entry Mixed

Send pupils* 6.0% *Special educational needs and disabilities

Total pupils 1,475

Pupils on free school meals 11.9%

Progress 8

Progress 8 is a measure of the development a school cohort/pupils makes from year 6 to year 11. The data used is from 2024. There will be no KS2 updates for 2025 or 2026 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is consulting on an improved version of Progress 8 and Attainment 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE

Our methodology

Results

Grade

22.2

A*/A

32.2

A*-B

61.2

Grade

9/8

46.7

9/8/7

67.7

What the school inspection says

“Pupils, and students in the sixth form, are extremely proud to attend Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. They behave exceptionally well and show admirable levels of respect towards each other. Pupils and students flourish from the high expectations set by leaders and teachers. They are highly motivated and immerse themselves fully in school life ... They talked positively about what leaders and teachers do to ensure that everyone is included and diversity is celebrated. Pupils appreciate immensely the positive relationships that they have forged with teachers ... [They] value the diverse enrichment opportunities … such as rocket club, astronomy club, chess, sewing and sports. They especially enjoy participating in, and winning, an extensive range of local and national competitions.”

Inspection

2022

In detail *

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*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.

About the school

The school was founded in 1554 as The Free Grammar School of King Philip and Queen Mary.
The boys’ school merged with the Girls’ Grammar School, on whose site the main school operates today, in 1985. The sixth form is based in the listed 18th-century buildings on York Street, which were actually built in Clitheroe churchyard in 1781 and moved stone by stone to their present location in 1834.
The sixth form has about 650 pupils — almost as many as the main school — who are drawn from more than 40 secondary schools across the area.
Former pupils include Peter Hargreaves, co-founder of the financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown, and the Olympic pentathlete Samantha Murray.

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admissions@crgs.org.uk

Telephone

01200 423 379

Website

crgs.org.uk

Address

Chatburn Road, Clitheroe, BB7 2BA

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