Welcome to CRGS and thank you for visiting the website. I hope that you find the information provided here interesting and useful and that it gives you a flavour of the school of today.

CRGS has a history of scholarship dating back to the award of its first Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1539. Unusually, it was granted a second Royal Charter by Elizabeth I in 1584.

Today, Colchester Royal Grammar School is a proud leader amongst the nation’s highly regarded maintained grammar schools. An 11-18 boys’ school with girls in the Sixth Form, it is situated in a pleasant, residential area of Colchester and has buildings of character and delightful, mature gardens. There is a small boarding section for Sixth Form boys. The school’s environment and ethos reinforce its commitment to blending traditional values with a forward-looking approach.

CRGS invites applications at 11+, 13+ and 16+ and has 800 students in total. The school is committed to academic excellence across the curriculum and has specialisms in Science and Languages. Pastoral care and extracurricular involvement balance and support the school’s emphasis on academic achievement and combine to provide a full and varied education for the students.

I would want all the staff and students at CRGS to be happy, successful and proud to be here, and I hope they are. The best lessons, they say, are ‘caught’ rather than ‘taught’, and I hope that you will be able to visit the school on one of our Open Evenings to ‘catch’ the very special atmosphere at CRGS.

K L Jenkinson

Headmaster