Queen Anne Grammar School

{{Short description|Former school in York, England}}

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{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}

Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls was a single-sex state grammar school in the city of York, England. It began in 1906 as the Municipal Secondary School for Girls and was based in Brook Street. At the end of 1909 the pupils were transferred to a new {{frac|5|1|2}}-acre site in Clifton.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/city-of-york/pp440-460#h3-0052|website=British History Online|title=A History of the County of York: the City of York – Schools and Colleges|access-date=9 August 2015}} The school was officially opened on 18 January 1910 by the Archbishop of York, Cosmo Gordon Lang.{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=Jean |title=The Story of a School Brook Street to Queen Anne |year=1985 |isbn=0951038605 |page=2}}

The school's name was changed in 1920 and Queen Anne was chosen as it was situated on Queen Anne's Road. The school emblem was a sphinx underneath which was a furled ribbon reading the school motto Quod Potui Perfeci.{{cite book|last=Lloyd|first=Jean|title=Brook Street to Queen Anne|year=1985|publisher=The Ebor Press|location=York, England|isbn=0-9510386-0-5}}

The school became a co-educational comprehensive in 1985 and was renamed Queen Anne School.{{cite book|last1=Lloyd|first1=Jean|title=The Story of a School Brook Street to Queen Anne|publisher=The Ebor Press|isbn=0951038605|pages=24}}{{cite web|title=Former Queen Anne Grammar School Head...|url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4879104.Former_Queen_Anne_Grammar_School_headmistress_Irene_Whittaker_dies/|website=York Press|access-date=18 November 2016}} It closed in June 2000{{cite web|title=Department for Education EduBase|url=http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=121707|website=EduBase|access-date=3 November 2016}}{{cite news|title=Sad farewell to York school|url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/archive/2000/07/10/7955152.Sad_farewell_to_York_school/?ref=arc|work=York Press|access-date=1 July 2013}} and in 2001 St Olave's School moved to the site.{{cite web|url=https://www.stpetersyork.org.uk/st_olaves/about/history_of_st_olaves |title=History of St Olave's |publisher=St Olave's School |access-date=23 November 2016}}