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Batley Grammar School was founded in 1612 by the Rev. William Lee. The original school building was erected close to the Parish Church of Batley, and the duties of the Master were...
‘to teach and instruct youth and children… and to make such as be capable fit for the university’
which has remained an important aim of the school since its foundation. |
Joseph Priestley
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The school has many eminent and illustrious former pupils, including the scientist and polymath Joseph Priestley FRS (right), discoverer of oxygen and many other gases; the Nobel Prize winner, physicist Sir Owen Richardson; and industrialists Sir Titus Salt, Sir Mark Oldroyd and Theodore Taylor. |
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The school moved to its present site in 1878, and for the next hundred years was reliant on income from the West Riding County Council, and then Kirklees Council. The school became independent in 1978, and joined the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) several years later. In 1988 girls were admitted for the first time into the Sixth Form, and the school became fully co-educational in 1996. |
In 2000 Priestley House, our Junior School, was opened, and children are now admitted from the age of three.
