Drogheda Grammar School

Drogheda Grammar School
Drogheda Grammar School
Location
Drogheda, Louth
Ireland
Information
Type Private, independent, coeducational Boarding/Day school
Motto Latin: Factis Non Verbis
("By deeds not words")
Denomination Predominantly Protestant and Buddhist
Established 1669
Head of campus Hugh Baker
Staff 120
Enrolment 350
Colour(s) Green and Black
Website droghedagrammarschool.ie

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

History

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 modern classroom and dormitory buildings and extensive playing fields.

Overall Academic Performance

The most recent statistics outlining the top feeder schools in the country for third level education has placed Drogheda Grammar School as the top school in the area with 100% of it students progressing to 3rd level education in 2015. These results were posted in both the Irish Times and Irish Independent on 3 December 2015.

Drogheda Grammar School is the top school in Louth and Meath and was featuring in the top 10 fee-paying schools in the country, the top 10 mixed gender feeder schools and also in the top 10 schools in Leinster.

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.[1] Recently the school has received a new building which was open to students in 2012. This new building includes a library/writing center, technology workshop, DCG room, and a Home Economics room. In there is a small reflection room which as a stained glass window originally made in contribution to the memory of a student who died in 1942 by Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studio in the 1940s and was in storage since 1976 after the school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 hosts 6 tennis courts, 5 playing pitches, a large gymnasium, and an AstroTurf pitch available for student use.[2]

Athletics

The school has a strong sports tradition in recent years with the boys' rugby team winning the North East Leinster league three years in a row. The school also has chess team which has won the Leinster junior chess league every year since 2004.

Past pupils

References

  1. ↑ "Holdings: Some notes on the buildings of Drogheda Grammar..." sources.nli.ie. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  2. ↑ "School History - Drogheda Grammar School". www.droghedagrammarschool.ie. Retrieved 2016-12-01.

Coordinates: 53°43′8″N 6°18′13″W / 53.71889°N 6.30361°W / 53.71889; -6.30361


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