TADCASTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL

An  association for former students and staff

The school, founded in 1557, was a West Riding of Yorkshire grammar school  until 1955 when it became a bilateral (grammar/modern) school. In 1968 the school took in its first fully comprehensive cohort. Originally sited in the town, bounded on three sides by John Smith’s Brewery, the school moved, in the late 1950’s, to its present 70-acre site at Toulston, approximately 2 miles west of the town on the Bramham Road. The school site is well signposted.

The town of Tadcaster lies roughly half way between Leeds and York.
The School is now a North Yorkshire comprehensive school with 1600+ students.

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The association was formed in 1994. Prior to that time there had been no school-sponsored old student group, though several groups of near-contemporaries are in existence. The association was formed by the school with a view to canvassing financial support for the school’s project to provide an all-weather sports area. The inaugural meeting was very well attended and most of those attending joined the association. The association, which now has nearly 400 members world wide, is run by a small but loyal and enthusiastic committee.

There is a reunion at the school every two or three years. The 2007 reunion was held to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the school’s foundation. The group issues one or two newsletters each year.

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