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, president = , head_label = Head Teacher , head = Mr Nick James , chair_label = Chair of Governors , chair = James Allison , founders = Matthew Broadley, Joseph Lister, Samuel Sunderland , address = Bramley Lane , city =

Hipperholme Hipperholme is a village in West Yorkshire, England, located between the towns of Halifax and Brighouse in the Hipperholme and Lightcliffe ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 11 ...

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, country = England , postcode = HX3 8JE , local_authority = , urn = 107585 , ofsted = , staff = 51 , enrolment = 371 , gender = Mixed , lower_age = 3 , upper_age = 16 , houses = Sunderland, Lister and Broadley , colours = Red and blue , publication = The Broadleian , free_label_1 = , free_1 = , free_label_2 = , free_2 = , free_label_3 = , free_3 = , website = http://www.hgsf.org.uk/ Hipperholme Grammar School is an

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(near Halifax),

, England. It educates pupils between the ages of 3 and 16. Lightcliffe Preparatory School merged with Hipperholme Grammar School in 2003, under the Hipperholme Grammar Schools Foundation, and was subsequently renamed as Hipperholme Grammar Junior School. The school has it origins in 1529 within the chantry chapel of the nearby village of Coley. In 1648 (the date the school classes as its founding year) Matthew Broadley, paymaster to

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, endowed a large sum of money to build a school on land donated by Samuel Sunderland of Coley Hall; the school opened its doors on its current site in 1661. Two of the current school houses, Broadley and Sunderland, are named after the founders. In 1783 a new school hall was constructed, designed by Longbottom. Originally an all-boys school, it became

( ISA, AGBIS) in the 1980s and began admitting girls at the same time.

Notable former pupils

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, biologist *

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