Hillcrest Grammar School

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Hillcrest Grammar School in Stockport, Cheshire is an independent day school with around 350 pupils aged 2½ to 16. The school was founded as a boys preparatory school in 1940 in Bramhall. It became co-educational in 1950s and also started to take pupils up to age 16 and added Grammar to its title[1]. The school moved in 1983 to the former “Stockport High School for Girls” building built in 1910[2] in the Cale Green district of Stockport, close to Davenport railway station. The old part of the building is locally listed. A sports hall with 4 badminton courts was built in 1994 and a new pre-preparatory department in 2003.

Hillcrest is accredited by the Independent Schools Council[3]. The school is owned and operated by a registered charity "Hillcrest Grammar School (Bramhall Educational Trust Limited)" [4] which is also a limited company[5].

The school is non-denomonational and largely non-selective[2], with admission by interview.

Past pupils include TV presenter Yvette Fielding, known especially as the youngest presenter of Blue Peter.

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  1. ^ Independent Schools Inspectorate report, 2004. Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
  2. ^ a b Hillcrest Grammar School, Advert for Deputy Head (google cache). Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
  3. ^ Hillcrest Grammar School, Independent Schools Council. Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
  4. ^ Hillcrest Grammar School(Bramhall Educational Trust Limited), Charity Commission. Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
  5. ^ Hillcrest Grammar School(Bramhall Educational Trust Limited), Company No. 00859128, Companies House. Retrieved on 2008-02-09..

Coordinates: 53°23′44″N, 2°09′23″W

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