Humphrey Perkins School

The Humphrey Perkins School is a secondary school with academy status which was founded in 1717 in Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire in England.A Free Grammar School founded in 1717 in the will of the Barrow-on-Soar born Humphrey Perkins, rector of Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, who left money for a grammar school to be built in Barrow-on-Soar. The Humphrey Perkins Grammar School was built on an orchard near the centre of the village and opened in 1735.In 1902 the School moved to larger premises on Cotes Road with the school's first non-clergyman Headmaster, Mr Fernsby and 33 pupils. Of these pupils 32 were boys with just one girl, Nora May Wall. In 1927 the then Headmaster Mr Keeble introduced a school uniform of black blazer, badge and ties. Examples of this uniform are still kept by the current Headmaster along with a School rugby shirt. The four houses were named after pre-eminent Leicestershire families as Beaumont, Grey, Hastings and Latimer.In 1947 a secondary modern school was opened on the same site and in 1956 the school became a single bilateral school with approximately 500 pupils. Mr Dunn became Headmaster in 1960 and discussions began whether Humphrey Perkins or Rawlins at Quorn would be the 'Upper School' in the new two tier Leicestershire education model. In 1966 Humphrey Perkins was converted to a High School for 11- to 14-year-olds with some 1000 pupils.