Loughborough Grammar School A GSG School
- Loughborough Grammar School
Burton Walks
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 2DU - Head: Mrs Helen Foster
- T 01509 233233
- F 01509 218436
- E grammar.admissions@lsf.org
- W lsf.org/grammar/
- A mainstream independent school for boys aged from 10 to 18 with a linked junior school
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Leicestershire
- Pupils: 850; sixth formers: 248
- Religion: Christian
- Fees: Day £15,900 - £16,170; Boarding £39,000 - £39,270 pa
- Open days: September, November (Sixth form) and March; Bespoke events throughout the year.
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Loughborough High School, Fairfield Prep School, Loughborough Amherst School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
‘Teachers go the extra mile,’ parents tell us, with school putting ‘excellent teaching above strong facilities in terms of school selling points’. All boys are given the ‘opportunity, space and security to be their own type of man – clever, sporty or arty,’ a parent reflected. We were presented with a jar of honey at bee club, and were met by African snails, scorpions, snakes at beast club – mercifully kept behind glass on our visit (one boy divulged that…
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All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
Sports
Fencing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2023, Helen Foster. First female head in Loughborough Grammar school’s 500-year history. Head girl at Woodbridge School, playing hockey to a ‘high standard’, then Edinburgh University to study architecture and ‘play more hockey’. Realised – when interviewed by pupils during her studies – that, ‘annoyingly, my mother had been right, teaching was for me’. PGCE from Liverpool’s Hope University, cutting teeth at Cheadle Hulme School where she taught geography (and within week was coaching first team hockey), then Leicester High School. A hiatus from teaching to have children (two boys and a girl now in their 20s and teens – youngest at Oakham) saw her develop a role as Midlands careers advisor, returning to become boarding housemistress at Oakham School. Nine years later spotted ad for Loughborough Grammar and applied, ‘curious’ to know...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
We are currently able to offer limited support for pupils with special educational needs but are not able to offer any specialist teaching. The progress of pupils with special educational needs is carefully monitored. 10-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | Y |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | Y |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
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