Queen Mary's Grammar School QMGS is a selective grammar school located on the Sutton Road in Walsall, England, just outside the town centre.
It was founded in 1554 by George and Nicholas Hawe, two leading townsmen, with Queen Mary I as its royal patron and benefactor. At this time it had about sixty pupils, all boys, and taught Classics almost exclusively. Today it is still mainly single-sex, though an increasing number of girls are admitted to t...
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Queen Mary's Grammar School QMGS is a selective grammar school located on the Sutton Road in Walsall, England, just outside the town centre.
It was founded in 1554 by George and Nicholas Hawe, two leading townsmen, with Queen Mary I as its royal patron and benefactor. At this time it had about sixty pupils, all boys, and taught Classics almost exclusively. Today it is still mainly single-sex, though an increasing number of girls are admitted to the sixth form. Female pupils attend its sister school, Queen Mary's High School. It has grown significantly since its foundation and moved three times. Originally housed in an old town guild-hall near St Matthew's Parish church, it moved to Park Street in 1811, into new buildings in Lichfield Street in 1850 (a site now used by the High School) and finally to a purpose-built school on the Mayfield site in 1965. Despite expansion, it is still small by modern standards, with about 700 pupils; 96 each of the first five years and over two hundred...
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