Dr Challoner's High School
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Website. http://www.challoners.com. 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.
Dr Challoner's High School, abbreviated to DCHS, is a grammar school for girls between the ages of 11 and 18, located in Buckinghamshire, England. In August 2011 the school became an Academy. [2] In September 2001, the school was awarded specialist school status as a Sports College, by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES).
- 1962
- Latin: Pro Maleficiis Beneficia
It is 394 years since Robert Chaloner, rector of St Mary’s Church, wrote in his will the command to his friends ‘to erect a free gramar scoole [sic] in Amersham in Bucks’ and, for 390 years, Doctor Challoner’s Grammar School has survived and in fact thrived, becoming a centre of academic excellence.
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Well established boys' secondary school with co-educational Sixth Form. News, prospectus, ethos, history and academic achievements.
We don't know when the school started having a second 'l' in 'Challoner'. The oldest documents we have which date from the start of the 20th Century have the spelling as we know it today. The school was also known as "Amersham Grammar School" well into the 1950s as this blazer badge shows.
School History. Dr Challoner’s High School gets its name from Dr Chaloner, D.D, Canon of Windsor and Rector of Amersham from 1578 to 1621. Dr Chaloner provided £20 in his will for a ‘free grammar school’, and in 1624 the original Dr Challoner’s Grammar School was founded in Old Amersham.
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