The Crypt School

Headmaster	David Lamper
Founded	1539
School type	Grammar School
Gender	All boys school with a mixed Sixth Form
Religious affiliation	None (Founded at St Mary de Crypt Church)
Location	Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Enrollment	Approx. 750 (inc Sixth Form)
School colors	Maroon, (Gold)

The Crypt School is a grammar school for boys in the city of Gloucester, England, founded in 1539 by John and Joan Cooke. The original school was part of St Mary de Crypt church in Southgate St and the schoolroom can still be seen there. Later, the school moved to Greyfriars and in 1943, to its current site at Podsmead. It has a strong academic reputation and great sporting tradition, particularly in rugby union and field hockey. Current education changes in Gloucestershire now ensure the survival of the Crypt as a grammar school.

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Academic

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The Crypt School is one of the Specialist Science Schools in Gloucester, which reflects the school's achievements in the scientific field as well as its investment in facilities for all sciences (including Mathematics, Geology and ICT etc.). The school has also been awarded an 'Artsmark' Award by the Arts Council of England for the quality of provision in creative and perfoming arts.

As one of Gloucester's four grammar schools (two boys, two girls), the school's results are consistently extremely high (particularly at GCSE level - with 95% gaining 5 A*-C passes). The results at all levels are far in excess of the national average, and also the average of the Gloucester LEA which happens to be one of the most successful in the country.

Miscellaneous

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School Song - Carmen Cryptiense

Pio cantu celebremus
Scholam, pie memoremus
Conditores, quis debemus
Tot Musarum munera.
Laus Ioanni tribuenda,
Laus Ioannae concinenda.
Vivat schola Cryptiensis,
Vivat in perpetuum!

Stat per annos domus crescens
Fortiorque fit senescens,
Laeta prole revirescens
Dum labuntur saecula.
Viget prisca fide plena,
Viget nova spe serena.
Vivat schola Cryptiensis,
Vivat in perpetuum!

==Noted Alumni

• Robin Day (1923-2000), journalist, broadcaster and political commentator.
• William Henley (1849-1903), poet and editor.
• H D F Kitto, classicist.
• John Moore (1730-1805), Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897), poet and scholar. (Former head-master).
• George Whitfield (1714-1770), a leader of the methodist movement.

External links

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• The Crypt School Official Website
• Old Cryptians Club for former pupils and teachers.

1539 establishments | Educational institutions established in the 1530s | Schools in Gloucester