Hipperholme Grammar School is a private grammar school in Hipperholme (near Halifax), West Yorkshire, 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. In 2017, the Junior School site in Lightcliffe closed and the Junior School merged with the Senior school site.
In 1648 (the date the school classes as its founding year) Matthew Broadley, paymaster to Charles I, endowed a large sum of money to build a school on land donated by Samuel Sunderland of Coley Hall; the school opened 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. Originally an all-boys school, it became private (ISA, AGBIS) in the 1980s and began admitting girls at the same time.
Notable former pupils
Richard Alexander, TV presenter and producer
Sir Gordon Duff, Principal since 2014 of St Hilda's College, Oxford, and Chairman from 2013–14 of the MHRA
George Stanley Faber, theologian
David Halliwell, 1936–2006 Playwright and dramatist, Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
Lawrence Heyworth, radical MP and merchant
Neil Hopkinson, classical scholar
John Dyson Hutchinson, Liberal MP from 1877–82
Courtney Kenny, liberal politician
Wilf Lunn, prop maker
Danny McNamara, singer
Richard McNamara, guitarist
Katie Ormerod, snowboarder
Sir Robert Peel, Victorian era Prime Minister and creator of the Metropolitan police
Percy Sladen, biologist
Laurence Sterne, Anglo-Irish novelist
Sir Donald Thompson, Conservative MP from 1979–83 for Sowerby and 1983-97 for Calder Valley
Paddy Tipping, Nottinghamshire PCC since 2012, and Labour MP from 1991–2012 for Sherwood