Elyanore House, used for music teaching; the George Young building, named after a former English teacher and used for drama; and the Jenkinson Building (opened in 2016), named after a former headmaster and containing computer rooms and chemistry laboratories. The school has male and female boarders who mainly come from overseas (mostly from Hong Kong and parts of the European Union). Academic situation Being a selective school in the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex, entrants are required to pass the eleven-plus exam. The school has consistently achieved high results, coming first in the A-level league tables on many occasions. The school is also successful at GCSE level. In 2004 Colchester Royal Grammar School was named as the top state school in the country by the BBC. The school's success was recognised in 1999 by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who invited the headmaster, Stewart Francis, along with other heads of the country's top schools, to a meeting to discuss the improvement of education in Britain. In the early 2000s the headmaster Kenneth Jenkinson explained the success by saying that "although as a grammar school the academic success of our students is our principal priority, I tend to see the results as the by-product of an ethos where we encourage students to aim high in all that they do and approach challenges with confidence". Classical Latin and Greek The teaching of Classical Greek is offered to pupils, in addition to studying Latin, up to A-level. Between 1994 and 2004 the Government of Greece funded teaching of the subject in an effort to halt its decline in the United Kingdom state sector. This was the result of a pupil-led campaign following a decision by the governors to cease teaching of the subject following financial difficulties caused by becoming a grant-maintained school. Colchester Royal Grammar School was also the first in the country to teach Classical Civilisation at A-Level. The subject "arose from a conversation between Arthur Brown, Head of Classics, and the Headmaster one afternoon in 1970." Headmasters The following have served as headmaster of Colchester Royal Grammar School since 1900: 1900–1916: Percy Shaw Jeffrey 1916–1937: Harry James Cape 1937–1947: Arthur William Fletcher 1948–1968: Jack F. Elam 1968–1984: Stanley Gardner 1985–2000: Stewart A. C. Francis 2000–2015: Kenneth L. Jenkinson 2015–present: John Russell For a full list, see: List of headmasters at Colchester Royal Grammar School. Old Colcestrians Former pupils, known as