Dr Challoner's Grammar School

Dr Challoner's Grammar School (also known as DCGS, Challoner's Boys or simply Challoner's) is a selective grammar school for boys, with a co-educational Sixth Form, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. It was given academy status in January 2011.

Not to be confused with Dr Challoner's High School.

Dr Challoner's Grammar School

51°40′34″N 0°36′35″W / 51.67622°N 0.60982°W / 51.67622; -0.60982

1624 (1624)

Buckinghamshire

Shaun Kennedy

David Atkinson

150

Boys (Year 7–11) Co-educational Sixth Form

11 to 18

1,326^[1]

Foxell
Holman
Newman
Pearson
Rayner
Thorne

http://www.challoners.com

It was founded in 1624 in accordance with the last will and testament of Robert Chaloner. Chaloner, a Doctor of Divinity, was Rector of Amersham from 1576 to his death in 1621. He was also a Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor from 1584.

Academics[edit]

Dr Challoner's students did well in two subjects nationally in 2003.^[13] It was one of two schools named by the Department of Education (the other being Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe) as the best performing schools nationwide in the 2003 GCSEs^[14] and named the country's best grammar school in 2011.^[15] In the 2011 GCSEs, boys achieved a 100% pass rate with 50 of the 183 candidates earning all A*-A grades.^[16]

– novelist^[17]

Chris Cleave

– Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University^[18]

Dame Sandra Dawson

– cricketer for Gloucestershire^[19]

Dominic Goodman

– professional cyclist^[20]

Roger Hammond

– Conservative MP for Chelsea & Fulham, Chairman of the Conservative Party and former Minister of State for Trade Policy^[21]

Greg Hands

– engineer^[22]

Elizabeth Laverick

– botanical artist^[23]

Margaret Mee

Sir – actor^[24]

Roger Moore

– footballer^[25]

John Mousinho

– professor of physical chemistry at Bristol University^[26]

Andrew Orr-Ewing

– anthropologist^[27]^[28]

Kenneth Page Oakley

– Conservative MP for Esher & Walton, formerly Lord Chancellor, Deputy Prime Minister and former Foreign Secretary Resigned in April 2023.

Dominic Raab

– cricketer^[29]

Matt Watson

– cricketer^[30]

Sam Westaway

Notable former students include:

Edward Rayner 1624–1640

? Angell 1640–1650

Humphrey Gardiner 1650–1676

John Hughes 1676–1697

? Crowfoot 1697–1702 (Dudley Penard officiated – 1698)

Benjamin Robertshaw 1702–1706

not known 1706–1790

Richard Thorne 1790–1822

Henry Foyster 1822–1826

Matthew Stalker 1826–1849

W. S. Newman 1849–1850

Edmund J Luce 1850–1862

W. H. Williams 1862–1880

Frederick Weller 1881–1883

W. J. Foxell 1883–1886

Colin J. Creed 1886–1888

Lewis H. Pearson 1888–1889

E. P. Cooper 1889–1897

E. H. Wainwright 1897–1908

R. E. Yates 1908–1935

J. E. Simpson 1935–1937

T. P. Oakley (acting) 1937–1938

Neville Harrow 1938–1956

R. Simm (acting) 1941–1945

W. C. Porter 1956–1964

D Holman 1965–1972

J. A. Loarridge 1972–1992

G. C. Hill 1993–2001

Mark A. Fenton 2001–16

[31]

David Atkinson 2016–

[32]

List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)

F. R. Treadgold, B.A. (1973). Dr Challoner and his school. Amersham.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

cite book

F. R. Treadgold, B.A. (1974). "Challoner's" 1624–1974: The story of Dr. Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham. Luton: The Leagrave Press Ltd. 0-85236-051-7.

Dr Challoner's Grammar School