time and the school officially became a co-educational grammar school. A Board of Governors with fifteen members was established in 1914. In 1929, the school moved to its present site in Colyford. Recent developments The school began a program of development and expansion in 1991, adding and renovating many buildings over the subsequent two decades. This included two new Study Centres, the "Study Centre" and the "Sindalls Building", a major renovation of the Chemistry block, the "Jowett Building", a new, expansive Science and Design & Technology block, the "Feoffees Building", a new Music building, a new Art building, the large "Walker Building" which contains the school library, called 'The Elizabeth Preston Library', History, Psychology and Modern Languages classrooms, a new Humanities building, the "Coly Building", including RE and Geography classrooms, a new canteen named "Take Five", and a complete refurbishment of the "Cottrill Hall", the main school hall. On 1 January 2011, Devon County Council ceased to maintain the school. The school became one of the Coalition Government's Academies. Colyton Grammar School Academy Trust, an exempt charity and company limited by guarantee, assumed responsibility for this state-funded independent school. In 2019, the Drama Studio was removed and replaced with a classroom and a new Wellbeing Centre. The old computing rooms were converted into classrooms and the tech labs were turned into the new computing rooms. Following these redevelopments, in 2022 the East Wing of the school was renovated to install a new Drama Studio. Curriculum The school is a member of the South West Academic Trust, which brings together selective schools across the south west of England to share good practice. The school, as of 2007, had students taking GCSEs in Year 10 as opposed to Year 11, allowing for a three-year Sixth Form. As of September 2016, the GCSE exams are taken in Year 11 again, with the first examinations being taken in 2017–2018. This has meant a return to a two-year Sixth Form. There were no GCSE examinations taken in the academic year 2016–2017. There were falling grades as part of a national trend in 2013 but since then grades at GCSE have recovered. Beginning in the academic year 2017–2018, 155 new students are admitted each year (as opposed to the former 124), with the introduction of a 5th House, Elm. Staff As of April 2022, there are 154 staff members at Colyton Grammar School, including site and