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Information about The Village School
In the Parish Notes published by the rector Edwin Barrow in 1889, records for 1851:
“Opening of new School. Number of children entered, 16. Salary of Mistress, £26, to rise to £30 per annum.”
The land for the school was donated by Frances Elizabeth Dowager Countess Nelson. The materials of the old church were used to build the school. The total cost of building and furnishing the school was £680 7s. 10d. Numbers rose to 35 in 1853 including children from other parishes and in 1858 two teachers taught 40 children. Attendance at the school between 1871 and 1888 ranged between 23 and 34 each year.
The school was enlarged in the earlier 20th century. Average attendance was 53 in 1906-7, 34 in 1932, 46 in 1938 and only 18 when the school closed in 1978.
Earlier schools are also recorded. A school for poor children was held in the earlier 18th century by the curate and provision was made in the will of Anthony Cracherode for a teacher and books for 12 poor children. His school existed from 1753 and in 1818 a poorly qualified woman taught 6-8 children at it. Another school had c. 15 pupils in 1808 and is presumably the school with 16 pupils in 1818. In 1833 the charity school had had 28 pupils and was the only one in the parish.
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