Known Saltash Schools
1811St. Stephens Free School (St. Stephens Church)
1824 Trevollard House School (Boarding School for Young Ladies)
1830 Mrs. Carpenter’s School for Girls
1830 Saltash Academy (Young Gentleman boarded and educated)
1835 School in Church House
1843 National School in Church Lane
1854 Boy’s Boarding School in North Road
1856 Seymour House School for Young Ladies
1866 St. Stephens’ College in Port View
1866 College House School at 2 Callington Road
1872 Board School erected in North Road
1873The Mansion Seminary for Young Ladies (St. John’s Lane)
1873Miss Ellen Brown’s School for Girls in Fore Street
1873Miss Mary Elliott’s Ladies Seminary in Albert Road
1874Board School at Cross Park
1876Longlands Board School
1883Infants’ School at Trematon
1883Young Ladies’ School in Port View Cottage
1884The Vinery, Lower Port View (Franciscan Grey Friars)
1893Windsor House School at 36 St. Stephens Road
1904Essex House School in Culver Road
1906Miss Elizabeth Speare’s School for Girls at 94 Fore Street
1919Private School in Valetta House, Albert Road
1919Longlands Board School became a Public Elementary School
1927Saltash County School opened at Cross Park
1929St. Hilary School in the YMCA, Fore Street
1952Saltash Infant School in Callington Road (having moved from North Road)
1957 Saltash Junior School opened at Longstone site
1957Board School in North Road became a Secondary Modern
1957Board School at Cross Park became a Grammar School
1965 Secondary Modern and Grammar School became a High School
1968 Saltash Comprehensive School opened
1972Burraton County Primary School opened
1977Bishop Cornish Church of England School opened
2004Saltash School (Comprehensive) became Saltash.net (Specialist School)
2011Saltash.net became Saltash.net Academy
Other schools in town (no dates known)
Miss Orchard-Sharp’s School in Home Park Road
Magdala House School at 8 St. Stephens Road
Essex House School in Culver Road
Saltash Grammar School (pre Elizabethan) adjacent to St. Nicholas & St. Faith Church
First World War – School for the Children of Naval Officers (4 Windsor Terrace)
First World War – School for the Children of Naval Officers (corner of Belle Vue Rd/Fore Street)
During the First World War the Army took temporary occupation of St. Stephens School and classes were held during this time at Forder Chapel in Burraton, in the Plymouth Brethren Meeting House, in the Church Room and a shippen at Lower Burraton
Please Sir! (Education in Saltash)
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