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The Hall and the wartime buildings became part of Clayton Hall Grammar School for Girls in 1947. This was administered by the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It had around 500 girls in the 1950s, then 600 in the 1960s.
In 1944 the school became Peterborough County Grammar School, administered by the Peterborough Joint Education Board, later the Peterborough City Education Committee. One solitary male joined the five hundred girls at the school and its thirty female teachers as a science teacher in September 1953, as no female science teacher could be found. [1]
Mother Cabrini High School – All-girls' school opened in 1899 by Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini; staffed by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; closed in June 2014. Monsignor Kelly Jr. High School – All-boys' school for gifted and the highest-I.Q. New York County students; closed in 1972.
(The boys school had begun as the Northern Secondary School in Kingston in 1921). After wartime evacuation, the two secondary schools were re-established in 1946 as a result of the Education Act 1944. The boys' school housed approximately 550 boys in 1970 and was run by the City of Portsmouth Education Committee.
Glanmôr School was a secondary school in Swansea in south Wales, founded as Glanmor Central School for boys and girls in 1922 and closed by merger with Bishop Gore Comprehensive School for Boys in 1972. [1] "Glanmôr", or "Glan y Môr", means "seaside" in English. It was situated on Glanmor Hill in Uplands in wooden ex-army buildings.
Rosa Bassett School was a grammar school for girls in South London. Established in 1906 in Stockwell as the Stockwell County Secondary School , in 1913 it moved to Welham Road on the boundary between Streatham and Tooting .
A girls' grammar school established in a town with an older boys' grammar school would often be named a "high school". Under the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act 1907 all grant-aided secondary schools were required to provide at least 25 percent of their places as free scholarships for students from public elementary schools. Grammar ...
The number of pupils in the school at this time was 34 boys and 300 girls, the boys being in the junior school only. School dinners had been supplied at the cost of 6d but, owing to wartime conditions, the price had to be increased to 8d. Fees for attending the school were: Seniors £2-2s–0d per term and Juniors £1-5s–0d per term.