The Crypt School

The Crypt School
Location
Map
Podsmead, Gloucester
,
Gloucestershire
,
GL2 5AE

England
Coordinates51°50′22″N 2°15′07″W / 51.8394°N 2.252°W / 51.8394; -2.252
Information
School typeGrammar school;
Academy
MottoFloreat Schola Cryptiensis
Established1539; 485 years ago (1539)
FoundersJohn and Joan Cooke
Department for Education URN136578 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherNicholas Dyer
GenderFully coeducational from September 2018 (mixed)
Age11 to 18
Number of students1,048
HousesCooke (Formerly Brown), Waboso (Formerly Whitefield), Moore, Raikes and Henley
Colour(s)    Maroon, Primrose
Websitehttp://www.cryptschool.org/
John and Joan Cooke by an unknown artist. In the collection of Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery.
The old Crypt School, next to St. Mary de Crypt church.
Plaque at the site of the old Crypt School.

The Crypt School is a grammar school with academy status for boys and girls located in the city of Gloucester. Founded in the 16th century, it was originally an all-boys school, but it made its sixth form co-educational in the 1980s and moved to a mixed intake from year 7 in 2018, thereby becoming the only fully coeducational selective school in Gloucester. The school was founded in 1539 by Joan Cooke with money inherited from her husband John.[1]

  1. ^ John and Joan Cooke. Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine Living Gloucester, 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.