 The headmaster since the opening of the old school in 1953 was Tom W. King, BA.He became headmaster of the new school and finally retired around the end of the 1981-1982 school year.When he died in 2004 at the age of 94, a plaque reading "Here, from 1956 to 2004, stood a Place of Learning" was placed on the wall of the West Moor Residents Association Community Centre, which now stands on the site of the old grammar school.