Central Technology and Sports College

Central Technology & Sports College was a secondary school in the north of Grantham in Lincolnshire, England.

When the new site opened again in September 1978, it admitted girls (in the first year) as a coeducational school.

It was situated directly north of the Grantham and District Hospital off Sandcliffe Road, between the A607 and the East Coast Main Line, which borders on to the western edge of the school's playing fields.

Fifth-year Simon Gilchrist Pickering (born 11 April 1965) burned down the main teaching block, causing £450,000 damage.

At Lincoln Crown Court he received three months at a youth detention centre in April 1981, and the school was fully operational by October 1981.

[2] The individual had had a minor disagreement with a teacher, and he had wanted to cause a small amount of damage in teenage protest, but the fire took hold instead.