There were plans to merge the school with St Mary's Catholic School on Wootton Road in Nunsthorpe (another low performing school) and have a joint school on the Upper School site at Chatsworth Place. This site was also next to St Joseph's RC Primary School on Philip Avenue. A closing re-union event for former staff and students of the school was held on Saturday 17 July 2010. The original merger proposal involved knocking down many of the former buildings of the Clee Grammar School, on Clee Road, and building a new school on the site, with the intention of opening the new school in 2012, after which the Matthew Humberstone Upper Chatsworth Place buildings could be demolished. This former plan was amended and a new "joint faith" school called Saint Andrew's College opened in September 2010, using the Upper site on Chatsworth Place. However the school was judged as "inadequate" in a 2013 Ofsted inspection and was put into special measures. The school converted to academy status on 1 September 2013, sponsored by Nottingham Roman Catholic Diocesan Education Service; the Bishop of Nottingham, Bishop Malcolm McMahon, chose the name of the academy as Holy Family Catholic Academy. HFCA closed in July 2017, reopening as Beacon Academy, sponsored by the Wellspring Academy Trust. The Clee Grammar School buildings on Clee Road remained empty after the 2008 closure. In 2013 the "new" school buildings were cancelled due to a change of government and the ending of the "Building Schools for the Future" initiative by the previous Government. This meant that the new school remained in the Chatsworth Place buildings. There had been a primary school on Bursar Street in existence 1902. In 2005 there was a threat to close the school in its entirety due to low primary numbers in Cleethorpes. Neighbours, parents and staff rallied and a case to keep the school open was heard by the council and the school remained open. Gradually, the primary numbers in Cleethorpes and in areas around Grimsby grew, and were predicted to keep growing, creating pressure on many schools in the area. The school sat on a restricted site so it could not grow without additional space. After the closure of MHS in 2010, the local authority suggested to Bursar Primary Academy that a move to the Matthew Humberstone lower school site on Clee Road site would allow significant expansion. The Kirman Trust sold the 1882 buildings to the local authority. In 2017, when the process of transforming the Clee Road buildings into a primary school began.