[2] It was first established in 1905 under the name Pudsey and District Secondary School, meeting in Pudsey Town Hall until the school's first purpose-built building opened on Richardshaw Lane in 1911, with construction having started in mid-1909.

[3] The school's logo is the coat of arms of Pudsey, bearing the slogan "Be Just and Fear Not".

[4] On 21 September 2009, the school was visited by the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.

[5] The school was also visited in 2010 by Labour leadership candidate and former Foreign Secretary David Miliband,[6][failed verification] who described the new building as "a great monument to Labour government".

[7] In April 2022 Pudsey Grammar School was named as part of the expansion of the Department for Education's national Behaviour Hubs programme as one of only 18 Lead Secondary schools nationally.