The Crypt School is a grammar school with academy status for boys and girls located in the city of Gloucester. This school has become the only coeducational selective school in Gloucester. This school has been an all boys school for almost 500 years but in 2018, it became coeducational. The sixth form has been coeducational for about 30 years and soon the crypt school will be fully coeducational. In 2018 the school allowed about 1/3 year seven girls, and 2/3 year seven boys, allowing 150 new students into the school. The school was founded in 1539 by Joan Cooke with money inherited from her husband John.
