Hipperholme Grammar School

Hipperholme Grammar School
Address
Bramley Lane Hipperholme Halifax , West Yorkshire , HX3 8JE England
Coordinates	53°43′43″N 1°48′48″W / 53.728489°N 1.813201°W / 53.728489; -1.813201
Information
Type	Private school
Motto	Doctrina Fortior Armis (Latin: The pen is mightier than the sword)
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	1648; 376 years ago (1648)
Founders	Matthew Broadley, Joseph Lister, Samuel Sunderland
Department for Education URN	107585 Tables
Chair of Governors	James Allison
Head Teacher	Mr Nick James
Staff	51
Gender	Mixed
Age	3 to 16
Enrolment	371
Houses	Sunderland, Lister and Broadley
Colour(s)	Red and blue
Publication	The Broadleian
Website	http://www.hgsf.org.uk/

Hipperholme Grammar School is a private grammar school in Hipperholme (near Halifax), West Yorkshire, England. It educates pupils between the ages of 3 and 16.

Lightcliffe Preparatory School merged with Hipperholme Grammar School in 2003, under the Hipperholme Grammar Schools Foundation, and was subsequently renamed as Hipperholme Grammar Junior School.^[1]

The school has it origins in 1529 within the chantry chapel of the nearby village of Coley. In 1648 (the date the school classes as its founding year) Matthew Broadley, paymaster to Charles I, endowed a large sum of money to build a school on land donated by Samuel Sunderland of Coley Hall; the school opened its doors on its current site in 1661.^{[citation needed]} Two of the current school houses, Broadley and Sunderland, are named after the founders.

In 1783 a new school hall was constructed, designed by Longbottom. Originally an all-boys school, it became private (ISA, AGBIS) in the 1980s and began admitting girls at the same time.^{[citation needed]}