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Plymstock School is located in Church Road, Plymstock, Plymouth. It was opened by Mr J S Hurrell on Wednesday April 26th 1911 and was then known as the Plymstock Senior Mixed School. Mr Hurrell was standing in for Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, the chairman of the Devon Education Committee, who was attending a similar event at Okehampton. The new School replaced the Dean Cross Elementary School for Boys and also accepted girls from the Goosewell Elementary School for Girls. In addition to the normal classrooms, it had been decided to provide rooms for manual instruction and cookery. It could accommodate 260 pupils between the ages of 10 and 15, which was in excess of the number required at that time. The building cost over £4,000. Apparently the mixed nature of the school brought some cause for concern. Mr Hurrell answered that in his opening remarks by saying that this was quite common in the North of England and that "They were no fools in the North". A mixed school was considered to attract a better staff of teachers. The School was designed by Mr P Morris, the Devon County architect, and constructed by Mr C Williams. The Headmaster was Mr T F Jarvis. The local managers of the School were Messrs A Edmund Spender, S Mitchell, W Mitchell, Andrews, Potter, S Blatchford and Commander Jones. Plymstock Comprehensive School Plymstock School became a Comprehensive School in 1965. In 1969-70 the School was extended to provide accommodation for an additional 300 pupils. The cost was estimated to be £111,000. It was to include specialist facilities for the sixth form and laboratory accommodation.
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