to improve all aspects of its provision, including some of the best results in its history. When the Academy was removed from Special Measures, Ofsted described it as having been transformed "beyond recognition" (November 2015). Academic performance The school had its best GCSE results in 2019. Alumni Goole Grammar School Gavin Bryars, composer Edwin Dawes, Reckitt Professor of Biochemistry from 1963-90 at the University of Hull (head of biochemistry from 1963–86), editor from 1976 to 1981 of the Journal of General Microbiology and from 1958-65 of the Biochemical Journal, and chairman since 1995 of the Philip Larkin Society Colin Graves, founder and chairman of Costcutter Philip Hall, professor of applied mathematics since 1996 at Imperial College London John Brian Helliwell, mathematician Barrie Rickards, professor of palaeontology and biostratigraphy from 2000 to 2005 at the University of Cambridge Norman Mahalski, later Norman Scott, Second World War codebreaker, Bletchley Park. Gwilym Pryce, professor of urban economics and social statistics from 1996 to 2014 at the University of Glasgow, and from 2014 at the University of Sheffield. See also Cornelius Vermuyden School and Arts College in Essex References External links History of the school EduBase News items Funding in October 2005 Academies in the East Riding of Yorkshire Educational institutions established in 1909 Goole Secondary schools in the East Riding of Yorkshire 1909 establishments in England Delta schools