For the school of the same name in Quetta, Pakistan, see St Francis Grammar School.
St Francis RC Grammar School was a Catholic grammar school

Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...

 for boys, in Hartlepool

Hartlepool

Hartlepool is a town and port in North East England.It was founded in the 7th century AD, around the Northumbrian monastery of Hartlepool Abbey. The village grew during the Middle Ages and developed a harbour which served as the official port of the County Palatine of Durham. A railway link from...

, County Durham

County Durham

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, England

England

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. It opened in 1956 and was subsumed into The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College

English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College

For the school of the same name in Leicester, see English Martyrs Catholic School.English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College is a secondary school and sixth form college located in Hartlepool. English Martyrs is the only Catholic secondary school in Hartlepool...

 in 1973.

Houses

There were four houses within the school: Percy; Swalwell; Errington; and Thirkeld. In the same way as the later English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College

English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College

For the school of the same name in Leicester, see English Martyrs Catholic School.English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College is a secondary school and sixth form college located in Hartlepool. English Martyrs is the only Catholic secondary school in Hartlepool...

 would name its houses after the English Martyrs, the houses of St Francis Grammar School were named after the following:

Percy

• Thomas Percy
  Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland
  Blessed Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, KG , led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason. He was later beatified by the Catholic Church.-Early life:...
  
  , the 7th Earl of Northumberland who was executed in York
  York
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   in 1572.

Swalwell

• John Swalwell, who can be found on the list of abbots of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey as Master of Jarrow in 1531.

Errington

• Roman Catholic churchman, George Errington
  George Errington
  George Errington , the second son of Thomas Errington and Katherine of Clints Hall, Richmond, Yorkshire, was a Roman Catholic churchman....
  
   (martyr
  George Errington (martyr)
  Blessed George Errington of Hurst Castle - from the minor gentry branch of Bingfield, St John Lee, Northumberland - was a Roman Catholic martyr who was hanged, drawn and quartered at York, on 29 November 1596. Two years before his own death, Errington had ridden with Father John Boste on his last...
  
  ), executed at York
  York
  York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
  
  in 1596.