The City of Leicester College is situated on Downing Drive, Evington, Leicester. It is a mixed secondary school for ages 11-18. It has around 1400 pupils.

Contents 1 Admissions 2 History 2.1 Comprehensive 3 Academic performance 4 Alumni 4.1 City of Leicester Grammar School 4.2 City of Leicester School 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Admissions

It is made up of two buildings, the main being the Gill Building and 200 metres down the road is the other building, Wyvern. Headmistress : Anne Gregory.

[edit] History

It used to be the City Boys' School which was founded in 1920 in buildings on East Bond Street. In 1928 the school moved to Humberstone Gate in the former buildings of the Wyggeston Hospital Girls School, built in 1878, which moved to a site in Regent Road now the Regent College sixth form. After 1944 it became City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School. After 1966 when the grammar school left, the former building on Humberstone Gate was used by Charles Keene College for a few years with the new school on Downing Drive.

[edit] Comprehensive

It became known as the City of Leicester School when it became comprehensive. It merged with the Spencefield School in 1985. The Spencefield building on Spencefield Lane became the lower school which is now the Gill building.

[edit] Academic performance

It gained specialist status as a Business and Enterprise College in September 2003. With this was built the Business and Enterprise Centre (BEC) at the Wyvern Building.

This school is on the "hitlist" to be rebuilt, as it is rapidly becoming outdated. It is hoped that the rebuild will start in 2010.

[edit] Alumni

[edit] City of Leicester Grammar School

• Prof Bernard Capp, Professor of History since 1994 at the University of Warwick
• Sir George Deacon CBE, oceanographer and President of the Royal Institute of Navigation from 1961-4
• Prof John Harrison, Professor of History from 1970-82 at the University of Sussex
• Keith Hill, Labour MP for Streatham
• Michael Kitchen, actor
• Sir Roger Sims, Conservative MP for Chislehurst from 1974-97
• Trafford Smith, Ambassador to Burma from 1967-70

[edit] City of Leicester School

• Alastair Campbell
• Mick Creedon, Chief Constable of Derbyshire Constabulary since 2007
• Emile Heskey, footballer
• Ahmed Jama
• Gary Lineker, recently-married footballer and presenter of Match of the Day

[edit] See also

• It is not to be confused with the former City of Leicester College of Education in Scraptoft, which was taken over by De Montfort University and then bulldozed in 2006.

[edit] External links

• School website
• Grammar school reunion Association - Wyvernians
• EduBase