Isabell Birley, an alehouse keeper, came to the rescue in 1621, presenting the Thirty Men of Kirkham with £30 for the restoration of the school.

[citation needed] The present school building was built between 1909 and 1911[4] when the front range and the headmaster's house were constructed to a design by the architect F. H. Greenaway of London.

[8] In recent years Kirkham Grammar School has produced a number of rugby players who have appeared at the highest level of the sport, Richard Wigglesworth and Kieran Brookes were part of the 2015 England's Six Nations squad, while Kieran Marmion was part of the Ireland squad.

[9][10] In 2016 Daniel Bibby became the first alumnus of the school to become an Olympian gaining a silver medal for Great Britain at the Rio Games in Sevens.

[11] The school celebrated its 450th anniversary in 1999 and has undertaken a major development programme with phase one, science laboratories and a classroom project, being completed in November 2005.

[13] The classrooms, with full Information technology (IT) multimedia teaching aids and access to laptops with wireless Internet facilities, opened in December.