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Altrincham Grammar School for Boys is a boys' grammar school in Altrincham, England.AdmissionsThe school is a fully selective non-fee paying grammar school with admission via an entrance exam. It had foundation school status which allowed a degree of independence from the local education authority, but from 2011 under the government's education reforms, it attained Academy status.HistoryFoundationThe school was founded as Altrincham County High School for Boys in 1912 as a result of the Balfour Education Act, to provide secondary education for an area which stretched from Sale to Knutsford.It opened with 57 pupils and 3 staff, housed in the red brick building which still forms the central block of the school today. The south wing and the assembly hall were added in 1938 and the science block, gymnasium and workshops in 1964.TraffordIn 1974, the school passed from the control of Cheshire County Council to the newly formed Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. It remained under Trafford's control until 1996 when it became a grant-maintained school. In 1999, it evolved into a foundation school, when grant-maintained school status was abolished.This centuryIn September 2003, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) awarded the school specialist school status as a Language College.