Monday 12 May 2025
Welcome to
Ilkley Grammar School
Friday 4 April 2025
Congratulations to our students for their awards from Mrs Purnell.
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As an ‘Outstanding’ comprehensive academy, our overriding aim is for all students to enjoy an exceptional, inclusive learning experience and for them to achieve everything that they are capable of – their ‘Personal Best’ - from year 7 right through to Post-16 and beyond.
We are very proud of our excellent reputation in the local community, as well as the wider Leeds and Bradford areas and pride ourselves on the quality of education we provide to our students. Our Ofsted inspection of March 2017 confirmed us as an ‘Outstanding’ school in all areas, where students “attain highly and make excellent progress”, where behaviour is “exemplary” and where “teachers go the extra mile to make sure students achieve, feel cared for and thrive within a supportive and productive learning environment”. (You can read the full report here). Our success was also recognised in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2018 with Ilkley Grammar School (IGS) named as the top ranked comprehensive school in the north of England.
Carly Purnell | Headteacher
Watch our video to give an insight into the outstanding education offered by Ilkley Grammar School Post 16. Join the Open Evening Event on Wednesday 1st November for more details.
We see leadership potential in all of our students and the opportunities that we provide help students to find and develop skills they might not realise they had.
Our students' academic life is enriched by a wide range of opportunities in which they explore and enjoy the world around them.
Friday 4 April 2025
Congratulations to our students for their awards from Mrs Purnell.
Friday 7 March 2025
St John Ambulance National Cadet of the Year
And the award goes to...Dylan Hurst from Ilkley!
Friday 24 January 2025
Young people from 12 secondary schools from across Leeds took part at The Wardrobe,
Tuesday 17 December 2024
Countdown to Christmas Concert 2024
Our Creative Arts highlight of the winter calendar!
Sunday 15 December 2024
Creative Arts: School Production Residential
The cast and crew of this year’s school production Les Misérables, worked incredibly hard at their rehearsal residential this week.
Wednesday 20 November 2024
The event was attended by over 500 guests, including students, parents, carers, school staff and local dignitaries.