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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.

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.

Boarding

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

Notable Old Jacobeans

• Walter Bertram Wood (1898–1917), First World War flying ace

References

1. History of our school
2. "Boarding Facilities | St. James' School, Grimsby". www.saintjamesschool.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015.
3. “Scout who became a Great Airman” (obituary) in Hull Daily Mail, 17 November 1917, p. 2

Further reading

• Cowie, Leonard & Evelyn (1991). That One Idea: Nathaniel Woodard and His Schools. Ellesmere, Shropshire: Woodard Corporation; pp. 139–42: St James' School, Grimsby

External links

• School website
• Profile on the ISC website

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Owned schools	Abbots Bromley School for Girls Ardingly College Bloxham School Denstone College Ellesmere College Hurstpierpoint College King's College Lancing College The Peterborough School Prestfelde School Queen Mary's School St James School The Cathedral School Worksop College Worksop College Preparatory School
Affiliated schools	Archbishop Temple School Bishop Stopford School Crompton House Church of England Academy Derby Grammar School St Olave's Grammar School St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School St Peter's Church of England Aided School St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School The Bishops' Blue Coat Church of England High School St Marylebone School Wren Academy
Associated schools	Alderley Edge School for Girls Derby High School
Academies	St Augustine Academy Kings Priory School The Littlehampton Academy The Sir Robert Woodard Academy Wren Academy

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• Choir schools in England
• Schools in Grimsby
• Private schools in the Borough of North East Lincolnshire
• Member schools of the Independent Schools Association (UK)
• Boarding schools in Lincolnshire
• Woodard Schools
• Church of England private schools in the Diocese of Lincoln