St James School, Grimsby

St James School
St James School
Location
	Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN34 4SY; England
Information
Type	Private day and boarding
Motto	Doctrinæ Fons Pietas; (From Learning Springs Piety)
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	1880
Local authority	North East Lincolnshire
Department for Education URN	118124 Tables
Head teacher	Mr Stephen Thompson
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	230~
Houses	Walkerly; Lindsey; Blakeney
Former pupils	Old Jacobeans
Affiliation	Woodard Corporation
Website	http://www.saintjamesschool.co.uk

St James School is a coeducational private day and boarding school located in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. It comprises a Senior School and Sixth Form. The school is associated with the Church of England Grimsby Minster, dedicated to St James.

History

Formerly known as St James Choir School, the school was founded on the premises of Grimsby's parish church, St James's (now Grimsby Minster). Canon James Peter Young, curate and later vicar at the church, was influenced by Nathaniel Woodard's education philosophy and established the school in 1880 to educate the church's choirboys. Classes were initially held in the Church's "Aqua Rooms", which became unsuitable. In 1882 the school became St James's College, with the intention of continuing to educate the boys after they outgrew the choir. The original choir school moved to a new site before reuniting with the college in 1904. A pre-preparatory department was added in 1957 and a sixth form and boarding programme two years later. It became an associated Woodard School in 1968 and was incorporated in 1985.^{[citation needed]}

Girls were first admitted in 1973 and accepted as boarders two years later. In 1975 "choir" was dropped from the school’s name, as it had now expanded to educate many other pupils, and choristers were a minority. Since 2014, the school has no longer educated the Minster's Choristers, who are now drawn from eleven different schools, and open to all.^[1]^{[third-party source needed]}

Boarding

Boarding pupils at St. James are housed within Woodard House, a purpose built boarding facility opposite the main school campus.^[2] The boarding programme is available to pupils in Year 7 and above.