It was closed in 2012, when it was merged with The Kingstone School to form Horizon Community College.

After Holgate closed, it was demolished and the site was turned into a car park for Horizon Community College.

[1] The grammar school had around 850 boys and moved to its present site in 1912.

The school has now closed due to the conjoining of the two Barnsley schools Holgate and Kingstone, coming together to form Horizon Community College.

In January 1981, Michael Parkinson said that Barnsley Grammar School was to his education what myxomatosis was to rabbits.