Prince Henry's Grammar School (a specialist language college), also known as Prince Henry's or PHGS, is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school and sixth form established in 1607 in the market town of Otley, West Yorkshire, England.

[2] In 2016, Prince Henry's had the third-highest results for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations in Leeds.

Thomas Cave left £250 for the establishment of a school in the parish of Otley on the condition that an equal amount of money be raised by the local community within four years.

[7] A royal charter was granted by King James I on 30 April 1607, just four days before the deadline laid out in the will expired.

The situation led to a second court case in 1611, which eventually caused the money to be obtained and used to buy land for the school.

[7] The School was named after King James's son Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, who was at the time the heir to the throne, but died in 1612.

According to the original charter the school was founded to teach both rich and poor in the local parish.

This scheme removed the original charter and governor system and created a charity for the school which was run by eleven trustees.

The curriculum at this time composed of 'the principles of the Christian religion', Latin, French, reading, writing, arithmetic, natural philosophy, history, geography, book-keeping, land-surveying, drawing, and design and music.

[7] In 1909 the school still owned the property near Thirsk that it had acquired in 1611, but it was now being rented by the Earls of Harewood for the price of £26 13s 4d a year.

In 1917 the MP James Hastings Duncan made an appeal to the Minister for Education which finally led to the reopening of the school.

[7] The school reopened after 44 years on 18 September 1918, temporarily based out of the Mechanics Institute, which later became Otley Town Hall.

Under the Education Act 1944 Prince Henry's became the local grammar school under the Tripartite System.

The victory of the Labour party in the 1964 and 1966 general elections, and the release of Circular 10/65 marked an end to the Grammar School system.

[9] Following the merger new buildings were constructed at the Farnley Lane site, to accommodate the extra pupils, which were opened by Prince Charles in 1970.

Parents raised concerns about the cost of the scheme, whether the iPad was the best model to use and the potential threat to the concept of free education.

These groups often perform at local churches in Otley and Ilkley[18][19] as well as at art exhibition openings and abroad (France, Italy and Belgium most recently).

[21] PHGS runs foreign exchanges, as the school has international links in Europe, Durban, South Africa[22] and China.

The history department runs biennial trips to Russia, Italy and to the battlefields of the First World War.

Across the six days of strike action by the unions a number of teachers, students and parents protested at the school gates.

Protests continued up until the day of the conversion, and finally on 1 December the school converted to an academy.