This year, 2023, marks the 425th anniversary of the foundation of Aylesbury Grammar School in 1598. That’s 425 years of educating local students. Since its foundation, the School has survived 19 monarchs, the upheaval of two world wars – as well as the English Civil War – and various relocations around Aylesbury.
AGS has kept true to the founding vision of its second great benefactor, Henry Phillips, through offering an extraordinary education to ordinary local boys.
We provide an education for each and every student which is unparalleled in breadth and quality of opportunity, but in order to maintain this we need facilities to match our vision. We face significant financial challenges. We are one of the most successful Schools in the country but it may surprise you to learn we remain in the bottom twenty lowest funded schools in the country. The School has occupied its current site for over a century and has some rapidly deteriorating learning and teaching spaces – many are not fit for teaching and learning in the modern world – and so this is where you come in.