Northallerton College
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Northallerton College, formerly known as Northallerton Grammar School, was founded in 1323. Parts of the old school building can be seen adjacent to All Saints' Church near the north end of Northallerton
Northallerton
Northallerton is an affluent market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Mowbray and at the northern end of the Vale of York. It has a population of 15,741 according to the 2001 census...

 High Street. The Grammar School moved to its current site in 1909.

Admissions

Northallerton College receives students from the town of Northallerton
Northallerton
Northallerton is an affluent market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Mowbray and at the northern end of the Vale of York. It has a population of 15,741 according to the 2001 census...

 and from a number of primary schools in surrounding villages, these include:
  • Appleton Wiske
    Appleton Wiske
    Appleton Wiske is a small village and civil parish that sits between Northallerton and Yarm in the Vale of York, a flat tract of land that runs between the North Yorkshire Moors to the east, the Yorkshire Dales to the west and the River Tees to the north....

  • Ainderby Steeple
    Ainderby Steeple
    Ainderby Steeple is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It was known as Eindrebi in the Domesday Book. The Church of St...

  • Brompton
    Brompton, Hambleton
    Brompton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, about two miles north of Northallerton. According to the 2001 UK census, Brompton parish had a population of 1,912.-History:...

  • East Cowton
    East Cowton
    East Cowton is a village and civil parish in the district of Hambleton in North Yorkshire, England.The village used to be known as "Long Cowton" and before that "Magna Cowton"....

  • East Harlsey
    East Harlsey
    East Harlsey is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about west of Ingleby Arncliffe and the A19 and north east of Northallerton.Within the village there is a pub called the 'Cat and Bagpipes'.-Sport:...

  • Great Smeaton
    Great Smeaton
    Great Smeaton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies on elevated ground near the River Wiske, which is a tributary of the River Swale...

  • Hornby
    Hornby, Hambleton
    Hornby is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies on a minor road between Great Smeaton and Appleton Wiske.It lies roughly 9 miles from Northallerton, 9 miles from Darlington, and 7 miles from Yarm....

  • Ingleby Arncliffe
    Ingleby Arncliffe
    Ingleby Arncliffe - is a small village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. The village itself merges into its smaller neighbour Ingleby Cross.-Notable residents:* Rev...

  • Kirkby Fleetham
    Kirkby Fleetham
    Kirkby Fleetham is a large village in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England about east of the A1 road. It is almost adjoined to two other villages, Great Fencote and Little Fencote; Great Langton is also in close vicinity. It has a population of 556. There is a local Pub/Bed &...

  • Knayton
    Knayton
    Knayton is a small village in Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located north of Thirsk just off the A19. It is linked with the hamlet of Brawith, approximately 1 mile away. The public house faces the village green and the village hall. There is also a caravan park and bus...

  • North Cowton
    North Cowton
    North Cowton is a village and civil parish, located in Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England. The surrounding towns are Darlington, Northallerton, and Richmond.The local school is called North and South Cowton Community Primary School....

  • Osmotherley
  • Romanby
    Romanby
    Romanby is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. Romanby is situated just south-west of Northallerton, and at the 2001 UK census had a population of 6,051....

  • South Otterington
    South Otterington
    South Otterington is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, it is on the A167 road and south of Northallerton.It has a primary school and a preschool...

  • Worsall


Northallerton College receives a number of A Level students from local schools. Northallerton College educates young people between the ages of 14 and 18, (Year 10 to Year 13), as an upper school in the three-tier system
Three-tier education
Three-tier education refers to those structures of schooling, which exist in some parts of England, where pupils are taught in three distinct school types. A similar experiment was also trialled in Scotland....

. The Allertonshire School
Allertonshire School
The Allertonshire School is a comprehensive school in Northallerton, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England.The school provides education for children aged between 11 and 14 years old, Year 7 to Year 9. Northallerton College is the sister establishment, providing education between Year 10 and Year...

 is the college's partner school, educating children between the ages of 11 and 14 (Year 7 to Year 9). The College received a 'good' rating in its last Ofsted report.

It is situated in the centre of Northallerton off the A167
A167 road
The A167 is a road in North East England. Most of its route was formerly the A1 as most of it is the original route of the Great North Road until the A1 was re-routed with the opening of the A1 in the 1960s....

.

Selective school

In the 1940s it had around 250 boys and girls, and 450 by 1970. It was administered by the North Riding Education Committee.

Comprehensive

In 1973 became a comprehensive under the name Northallerton Grammar School, administered by North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest...

, based in Northallerton. As a comprehensive it has always had a 14-18 age range. At the same time the Allertonshire School
Allertonshire School
The Allertonshire School is a comprehensive school in Northallerton, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England.The school provides education for children aged between 11 and 14 years old, Year 7 to Year 9. Northallerton College is the sister establishment, providing education between Year 10 and Year...

 was formed from the town's two secondary modern school
Secondary modern school
A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed in most of the United Kingdom from 1944 until the early 1970s, under the Tripartite System, and was designed for the majority of pupils - those who do not achieve scores in the top 25% of the eleven plus examination...

s. In 2009 the school became federated with Risedale Sports and Community College in Catterick.

Name change

In 1994 the school governors decided to change the name from Grammar School to College in order to reflect the reality of their service to the whole community. This still stands.

Academic performance

It gets GCSE results above average, and A level results at the England average.

Northallerton Grammar School

  • Thomas Burnet
    Thomas Burnet
    Thomas Burnet , theologian and writer on cosmogony.-Life:He was born at Croft near Darlington in 1635. After studying at Northallerton Grammar School under Thomas Smelt, he went to Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1651. There he was a pupil of John Tillotson...

    , theologian
  • George Hickes
    George Hickes
    George Hickes was an English divine and scholar.-Biography:Hickes was born at Newsham, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, in 1642...

    , theologian
  • Alan Hinkes
    Alan Hinkes
    Alan Hinkes OBE is an English mountaineer from Northallerton in North Yorkshire. Hinkes is the first British mountaineer to have summited all 14 mountains with elevations greater than 8000 metres, the so-called Eight-thousanders; however, this claim is disputed.He was awarded an Honorary...

    , mountaineer
  • John Kettlewell
    John Kettlewell
    John Kettlewell was an English clergyman, nonjuror and devotional writer. He is now known for his arguments against William Sherlock, who had justified the change of monarch of 1688-9 and his own switch of sides in The Case of the Allegiance. According to J. P...

    , clergyman
  • Lt-Col George Kirkland MBE, civil engineer, former President of the Institution of Structural Engineers
    Institution of Structural Engineers
    The Institution of Structural Engineers is a professional body for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom. It has 27,000 members in 105 countries. The Institution provides professional accreditation for structural engineers...

     from 1960-1, and structural engineer for the Millbank Tower
    Millbank Tower
    Millbank Tower is a high skyscraper in the City of Westminster at Millbank, on the banks of the River Thames in London, in the United Kingdom. The Tower was constructed in 1963 for Vickers and was originally known as Vickers Tower. It was designed by Ronald Ward and Partners and built by John...

  • John Radcliffe (physician), physician to William of Orange
  • Thomas Rymer
    Thomas Rymer
    Thomas Rymer , English historiographer royal, was the younger son of Ralph Rymer, lord of the manor of Brafferton in Yorkshire, described by Clarendon as possessed of a good estate, who was executed for his share in the Presbyterian rising of 1663.-Early life and education:Thomas Rymer was born at...

    , Historiographer Royal
    Historiographer Royal (England)
    In England the office of Historiographer Royal, a historian under the official patronage of the royal court, was created in 1660 with an annual salary of £200 and a butt of sack.-Historiographers Royal:Holders of the office included:...


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