Drogheda Grammar School

Drogheda Grammar School is an Irish co-educational multi-denominational school, located on Mornington Road, Drogheda, County Louth.

Drogheda Grammar School
Drogheda Grammar School
Location
Drogheda
,
The Empire of Meath

Ireland
Information
TypePrivate, independent, coeducational Boarding/Day school
MottoFloreat (flourish) - Every individual is of value and has something to contribute.
DenominationQuaker
Established1669 (1669)
Head of campusHugh Baker
Staff42
Enrolment510
Colour(s)Green, Red and Black
Websitedroghedagrammarschool.ie

History
Mr. Clarke's Free School, Laurence St., Drogheda in June 1984

Drogheda Grammar School was founded under Royal Charter in 1669 by Erasmus Smith and is one of the oldest secondary schools in Ireland. It was originally a boys’ boarding school but has now been a co-educational boarding and day school for over fifty years.

It is owned by a company with charitable status called Drogheda Grammar School Ltd. This structure was set up in the early 1950s when a group of local people (mostly Quakers) saved the school from closure. Although the school is not a Quaker school, it is run under the Quaker principle of "every individual is of value and has something to contribute". This philosophy is fundamental to the Mission Statement of the school.

It is located on 18 acres in a rural setting. The campus consists of a Regency house flanked by woodland, with classroom and dormitory buildings and playing fields.

Academic performance

The most recent statistics outlining the top feeder schools in the country for third-level education placed Drogheda Grammar School as the top school in the area with 100% of its students progressing to 3rd level education in 2020 (as well as in 2015 and). These results were posted in both the Irish Times and Irish Independent.[1]

Campus

Drogheda Grammar School is located on 18 acres in a rural setting off of Mornington Road, Drogheda, County Louth. The original building on its current campus was owned by Chief Justice Henry Singleton.[2] The school opened a new building in 2012. This new building includes a library/writing centre, technology workshop, DCG room, and a Home Economics room. There is a small reflection room which has a stained glass window originally made in contribution to the memory of a student who died in 1942 by Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studio in the 1940s and was in storage since 1976 after the school was moved from Lawrence Street. The school has six tennis courts, five playing pitches, a large gymnasium, and an AstroTurf pitch.[3]

Athletics

The school participates in several team sports including hockey, rugby, football, basketball and netball. The school also has a chess team and has won a number of local and all-Ireland competitions.

Past pupils

References
  1. Drogheda Grammar School is the top school in Louth
  2. "Holdings: Some notes on the buildings of Drogheda Grammar..." sources.nli.ie. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  3. "School History - Drogheda Grammar School". www. droghedagrammarschool.ie. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  4. "Ally Memon".
  5. Baker, Audrey (2009). "Williams, Alexander". Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
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