The Ashby Grammar School (AGS) school badge was designed by the Art mistress, Miss M Balmford, in navy and light blue, with a Knights Templar motif; the Knights Templars was connected to Bottesford, Lincolnshire.

[2] Lindsey Education Committee wanted to call it Bottesford Grammar School, and the Scunthorpe education divisional body wanted to call it Queen's Grammar School, there would be 17 teachers, and construction would be finished by June 1960.

Frederick Herbert Baker Gough died aged 77 on Wednesday 5 October 1960 in Scunthorpe War Memorial Hospital.

Sir Charles Morris, vice-chancellor of University of Leeds since 1948, was chosen to open the new school in early 1961.

[13] In December 1964, 16 year old Trevor Kitson, born 27 February 1948, of Belton Road in Epworth, was offered a place to study chemistry at St Peter's College, Oxford.

[clarification needed] The school teaches French (higher set only, excluding GCSE option) and Spanish.