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PLYMOUTH SCHOOLS
POST-WAR SCHOOLS 1945-1996
The Education Act 1944,
promoted by Mr R A Butler, Minister of Education, reconstituted the Board of
Education as the Ministry of Education and created a new Tripartite system
of free secondary education for children of both sexes over the age of 11
years. The system created grammar schools, secondary technical schools
and secondary modern schools and local education authorities were also
permitted to open comprehensive schools in which all three were to be
accommodated. The school leaving age remained at 15 years until 1973.
In regards to primary
schools, although many came into being in 1928 following a report on
education published two years earlier, they were not formalised until the
1944 Education came into force. Until then schools in Plymouth were
still known by the pre-War titles of infants, junior mixed, junior boys, or
junior girls.
In the following list of Primary and Secondary Schools,
those with a date in brackets after the title were opened in that year. All others
were merely new names for an older School.
1945-49
1950-59
1960-69
1970-79
1980-89
1990-2008
Not dated
Sources:
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