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Lady Lumley's School

Community school in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England

Field	Value
name	Lady Lumley's School
coordinates
motto	Deo, Regi, Patriae (For God, King, Country)
established
type	Academy
trust	Delta Academies Trust
head	Clair Foden
founder	Lady Lumley
address	Swainsea Lane
city	Pickering
county	North Yorkshire
country	England
postcode	YO18 8NG
local_authority	North Yorkshire
urn	148602
ofsted	yes
enrolment	1,253 pupils
lower_age	11
upper_age	18
gender	Coeducational
website	https://www.ladylumleys.coastandvale.academy/

Lady Lumley's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in Thornton-le-Dale in 1670.

It was endowed by deed of Frances, Viscountess Lumley, an ancestor of the Earl of Scarborough, in 1657, and the buildings completed in about 1680.

It has school links worldwide, particularly within Tanzania, Morocco, China and France.

The school has been awarded Sportsmark 2008, an iNET qualification, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, a British Schools Orienteering award and was classified as a Healthy School.

In 2019, the Ofsted Inspection Report rated Lady Lumley's school as inadequate.

School history

The current co-educational school was originally two single-sex grammar schools, one in Thornton-le-Dale and one on Middleton Road in Pickering, both called Lady Lumley's Grammar School. They were amalgamated in 1904/05, on the Pickering site. In 1864, the school at Thornton had 26 pupils, all boys.

During the Second World War, pupils from Middlesbrough High School for Girls were evacuated to Pickering, and shared the school with the Lady Lumley's pupils.

In the 1940s, pupils carried out an archaeological excavation of the nearby mediaeval hospital of St Nicholas.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the then headmaster of the school, F Austin Hyde, was an expert on the dialect of the area.

Previously a community school administered by North Yorkshire County Council, in May 2021 Lady Lumley's School converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Coast and Vale Learning Trust.

In 2025, the Coast and Vale Learning Trust merged into the Delta Academies Trust, bringing Lady Lumley's under the Delta banner.

Notable former pupils

Richard Buck, athlete
Duncan Dowson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
John Healey, Labour Party MP for Wentworth and Dearne (1997–present)
Craig and Chris Short, footballers

References

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(27 November 2009). "Lady Lumley's Ryedale bequest". BBC York and North Yorkshire.
"See Green - Ooops".
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(1923). "Victoria County History: A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2". Victoria County History.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. (1868). "Reports from Commissioners". Ordered to be printed.
Gordon Clitheroe. (15 September 2009). "Pickering Through Time". Amberley Publishing Limited.
(16 October 2005). "Evacuee to WAAF". BBC.
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(4 April 2006). "Hear the voice of the people". Gazette and Herald.
"Our Schools".
(4 February 2025). "Scarborough, Filey and Pickering Schools in Trust Merger".
(15 April 2020). "In Memoriam: Professor Duncan Dowson (1928–2020)". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology.
(21 January 2004). "Seadogs must beat the fear factor". Gazette and Herald.

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