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Here is a short run down of the School's history:-
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1907 |
Northgate School buildings condemned by Board of Education |
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1914 |
Site purchased for a replacement school in Kingsholm |
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1924 |
Money for building the new school becomes available, having been delayed by World War 1 and aftermath |
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1925 |
Kingsholm Council School built for boys & girls aged 7-14 and infants aged 4-7 |
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1931 |
Major re-organisation of Gloucester city schools: senior girls join infants at Kingsholm; senior boys are taught at the near-by Archdeacon Street School |
| 1939 |
Kingsholm
Senior Mixed School formed by the merger of Kingsholm senior girls and
Archdeacon Street senior boys.
Pre- war slum clearance schemes have seen families move out to the
suburbs causing falling numbers in Kingsholm and other city centre
schools. |
| 1947 | School leaving age raised to 15 |
| 1949 | Kingsholm School re-designated as a co-educational secondary modern |
| 1957 | Kingsholm School becomes a secondary modern school for boys. The girls transfer to the newly built Winifred Cullis School in Barnwood. |
| 1962 | Infant
department closes due to falling
numbers |
| 1973 | School closes due to cramped and out-dated accommodation. Additional places are provided at Saintbridge School for boys, which is expanded as a boys comprehensive. |
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Details provided by Kate Maisey, Senior Cataloguer, Gloucestershire Archives |
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