 It was ruled that future headmasters should not hold any benefice having "the care of souls".When it opened on "Clee Road" on 25 September 1882 it was an all-boys grammar school with only 15 students, which rose to 67, and known as the Clee Foundation School (although the area after which it was named was actually mostly in Grimsby).The Clee Grammar School for Boys (also known as the Clee Humberstone Foundation School and Old Clee Grammar School) was on the south side of "Clee Road" (then the A18, now the A46) in Old Clee, opposite "Clee Crescent".