Tewkesbury School is a comprehensive school in the English town of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. The current Head Teacher is John Reilly. A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Location within the British Isles The Tewkesbury War Memorial, locally known as the Cross Tewkesbury is a historic town in Gloucestershire, England. ... Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. ... Headmaster redirects here. ...

The school was the product of the decision taken c.1969 to make Tewkesbury switch to Comprehensive secondary education, the first town in Gloucestershire to do so. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

Formerly Tewkesbury had had four secondary schools: the Grammar School for Boys, located at Southwick Park to the south of the town (now the Severn-Trent Water Authority's premises); the Grammar School for Girls, known as the "High School", in Church Street (now the Abbey School); the Secondary Modern School for Boys in Chance Street (now the C of E Primary School); and Elmbury Secondary Modern School for Girls, a modern premises on the Ashchurch Road. It was the latter whose buildings were chosen to form the nucleus of a new Tewkesbury Comprehensive School, with all of the town's secondary education being concentrated on the one site, and the former schools closing. After a major building programme in which a whole range of new structures was erected, enlarging the old Elmbury School to several times its original size, the new Comprehensive, known simply as Tewkesbury School, was opened on Tuesday 5th September 1972 with about 1,200 pupils on its books, and John Faull as its first Head Teacher. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

A couple of months later, on Thursday 16 November 1972, the Official Opening took place, performed by Professor Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), Chancellor of Bristol University from 1970 till 1988, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1976. In 1965 she became only the second woman (after Florence Nightingale), to be appointed to the Order of Merit, following the death of Sir Winston Churchill. November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM (May 12, 1910–July 29, 1994) was a British scientist, born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in Cairo. ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... The University of Bristol was founded in 1876 as the University College, Bristol. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... The Copley Medal is a scientific award for work in any field of science, the highest award granted by the Royal Society of London. ... The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ... Florence Nightingale, OM (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nursing, and a noted statistician. ... For other Orders see Order of Merit (disambiguation). ... The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II. At various times an author, soldier, journalist, and politician, Churchill is generally regarded...

At some stage the school gained some distinction when Queen Elizabeth II visited the school after taking a tour of the town. She inspected some of the pupils and ate her lunch in the gym hall. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of 16 sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...

The school website can be found here.