| Caddy Field Board School | Ref 18-C531 |
In 1898, a report about the difficulties experienced in the first year of its existence said
To endeavour to instruct some of the ill-fed children is simply a waste of money and energy. As a matter of mere economy it would pay better to feed them, wash them and let them sleep. However it is our business to educate and not to feed them so we do the best we can with the material at our command
It accommodated 190 pupils [1912].
It accommodated 133 juniors [1936].
It became known as Caddy Field Junior and Infants' School.
Closed in the late 1980s. It became a referral unit for disruptive children, known as the Beaconsfield Centre.
Around 2004, it was converted into flats and known as Beaconsfield. The refurbishment won a Halifax Civic Society award in 2006 for its sympathetic redevelopment.
See Southowram Bank Board School
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| Caddy Field Junior & Infants' School | Ref 18-760 |
| Calder College of Further Education, Todmorden | Ref 18-C261 |
| Calder Grange Ladies' Seminary, Mytholmroyd | Ref 18-832 |
They
placed great emphasis on the moral and religious interests and the social happiness of their young ladies
Pupils were aged between 7 & 14 years, and paid 20 guineas per year.
The seminary closed around 1880
| Calder High School, Mytholmroyd | Ref 18-13 |
Opened in January 1950 as an experiment in secondary education. The school was the first comprehensive school in the West Riding, and took all children from the age of 11, without the 11-plus examination.
In August 1986, arsonists caused damage to the school estimated at £125,000.
In March 2017, the governing bodies of Cragg Vale Junior & Infant School and Calder High School agreed to amalgamate.
Cragg Vale Junior & Infant School closed in July 2017, and relocated to new premises on the site of Calder High School.
See Calder High School War Memorials and Pace Egg play
| Calder House Academy, Hebden Bridge | Ref 18-478 |
A boarding academy
Pupils and staff here included
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| Calderdale College | Ref 18-C11 |
Part of the Calderdale Colleges Corporation situated in the former Technical College and Percival Whitley College building
| Calderdale School of Physical Education | Ref 18-12 |
| Calvert's Factory School | Ref 18-371 |
See Child workers at I. & I. Calvert's mills, Calvert Orphans' Home, I. & I. Calvert and Cockroft's School
| Carlton House School, Halifax | Ref 18-763 |
|
High Class School, Carlton House, Halifax
Head Master: John Naughton Resident Assistant Masters:
F. A. Drewe MA Caius College Cambridge Scholarships amounting to £70 are offered for competition in November 1880 |
There were 8 pupils and 3 servants
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| Carr Green Board School, Rastrick | Ref 18-610 |
This was built as a new Board School and it opened on 31st July 1912 to supersede New Road Board School. It cost £5,000 to build.
It accommodated 350 boys & girls and 160 infants. Plans to have a swimming pool in the basement were abandoned.
It closed about 1977 when the school transferred to a new building along the lane.
It was later to a retirement home. Carr Green Nursing Home
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| Carr Green Junior, Infant & Nursery School | Ref 18-94 |
| Carr House Lane British School | Ref 18-186 |
In 1886, the old school was bought for use as a Sunday school for Bethel Chapel, Shelf using money borrowed from the Methodist New Connexion.
It is currently [2008] used as a workshop
| Carrick School & Kindergarten, Elland | Ref 18-603 |
| Carter's School, Halifax | Ref 18-785 |
Around 1850, he ran a school at Church Street, Halifax
| Castle Hill Primary School, Todmorden | Ref 18-95 |
On 15th March 1913, the New Elementary School opened, to replace the old school at Priestwell. The total cost was £7,650.
It was formally opened in 1916. It accommodated 516 adults
| Castlefields Infant School | Ref 18-96 |
| Catherine Slack Junior School | Ref 18-497 |
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| Centenary Congregational Sunday School, Holmfield | Ref 18-656 |
| Central Board School, Hebden Bridge | Ref 18-476 |
| Central Street Infant & Nursery School | Ref 18-97 |
A new Infants' School was built in 1984 at a cost of £370,000.
| Central Street Secondary School | Ref 18-236 |
| Centre Vale School, Todmorden | Ref 18-217 |
| Charity School | Ref 18-446 |
The Blue Coat School and Waterhouse Charity of 1636, included an educational provision.
From 1699, the Church of England raised money for such schools. Local benefactors also gave money for the schools.
Some local examples of charity schools include
Charity schools were often recognised by the colour of their uniform.
A charity boy was a student in such a school
| Chippendale's School, Halifax | Ref 18-516 |
Their (possible) aunts, Margaret and Mary, were at the same address [1841]
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| Christ Church, Church of England (VA) Junior School, Sowerby Bridge | Ref 18-98 |
| Christ Church National School, Todmorden | Ref 18-224 |
The opening was celebrated by an oratorio and concert, at which several local artistes – including singers Mrs Boocock, Mrs Sunderland, Mr Sutcliffe, Mr Womersley, and orchestra-leader Joseph Henry Frobisher – performed.
The school and other property were inundated in floods in August 1855.
| Masters at the School have included:
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| Christ Church Pellon Church of England VC Primary School | Ref 18-100 |
| Christ Church School, Sowerby Bridge | Ref 18-17 |
In 1897, it had 3 departments: Boys', Girls' & Infants'
| Christ Church Sunday School, Sowerby Bridge | Ref 18-3030 |
| Clare Hall School, Halifax | Ref 18-29 |
In the 1950s, it was popularly known as Halifax Secondary Modern School, The Modern, and Clare Hall Secondary Modern School.
From 19??, it merged with Haugh Shaw School to become Halifax High School.
When Halifax High School moved to Wellesley Park in 2004, there were plans to convert the building to private apartments – although with the heritage-based thinking that makes Halifax great, Allen Clegg, Independent Councillor for Warley, suggested the building be demolished and the whole site turned into a car park.
In December 2008, proposals were announced to convert the building into apartments.
See Plebeians Jazz Club, Halifax and Trinity Court, Halifax
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| Clarkson's School, Halifax | Ref 18-784 |
| Clay's School, Halifax | Ref 18-548 |
It accommodated 98 pupils [1817]
| Clay's School, Halifax | Ref 18-681 |
| Clegg Endowed School, Todmorden | Ref 18-249 |
| Clegg's School, Stainland | Ref 18-861 |
It is listed as Kidgate School / Redgate School [1861].
His wife Nanny was schoolmistress [1851]
| Clegg's School, Wheatley | Ref 18-528 |
| Cliffe Hill Community Primary School | Ref 18-101 |
Opened 26th June 1953.
It served the nearby Stoney Lane and Smith House council estates.
It accommodated 300 pupils.
It was named for Cliffe Hill Mansion.
The first Head teachers were Mrs McBurney and Deputy Head Mr Crossland.
They won the InterSchools Cricket Shield [1958] and the InterSchools Football Cup [1956-1957]. Steven Tart was captain of both winning teams.
Halifax Golf Club was originally located on the site.
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| Clifton Board School | Ref 18-390 |
| Clifton Church Evening School | Ref 18-44 |
| Clifton Church School | Ref 18-194 |
| Clifton Endowed School | Ref 18-389 |
| Clifton Free School | Ref 18-385 |
The school was established in 1720 to teach
12 children from Clifton and 6 from Hartshead
The school was held in a house on the Armytage estate.
In 1729, Sir John Armytage provided the master's salary from rents of lands in Clifton.
| Masters at the School have included:
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In 1810, it became Clifton Grammar School.
In 1818, Rev Thomas Atkinson rented part of the school for use as a Sunday School.
See Holly Bank, Clifton and Rev John Ryley
| Clifton Grammar School | Ref 18-387 |
In 1833, the 95 boys attending the school included 65 boarders and 18 poor boys who were paid for by Sir George Armytage.
See Sir John Armytage and Holly Bank, Clifton
| Clifton Methodist Sunday School | Ref 18-816 |
| Masters at the School have included:
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| Clifton National School | Ref 18-388 |
Ellis Wilkinson was the first master at the school.
It closed in 1876. The building was taken over by Clifton Mechanics' Institute
| Clough Foot Council School, Todmorden | Ref 18-581 |
THIS SCHOOL WAS BUILT BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AD 1829 FOR CHILDREN OF ALL RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS |
It closed in 19??
It is now a private house
| Clough Foot Evening School, Todmorden | Ref 18-45 |
| Cloughfoot Board School, Todmorden | Ref 18-531 |
| Cockcroft's: Ebenezer Cockcroft's School, Wainstalls | Ref 18-243 |
Ebenezer Cockcroft lived here and had a school here [1841, 1851, 1861].
The building became known as Rose Cottage
| Cockpit School, Illingworth | Ref 18-714 |
The school was run by John Ingham. He taught on weekdays, and also as a Sunday School.
Those educated here included Jonathan Akroyd
| Colden's: Mr Colden's Charity School | Ref 18-67 |
| Colden Junior & Infant School | Ref 18-102 |
See Colden Water, Alice Longstaff and Miss Oxley
| Colden Wesleyan School | Ref 18-798 |
| Coley School, Lower Shelf | Ref 18-380 |
| College of the Resurrection, Mirfield | Ref 18-927 |
| Commercial College, Ripponden | Ref 18-739 |
| Common Board School, Brighouse | Ref 18-174 |
| Continuation school | Ref 18-355 |
From the 19th century, teenage factory workers were sent to Continuation Schools for further education. These schools were set up by a large factory or a group of smaller factories. Typically, the workers attended one day a week for about 4 years. The system continued into the 1940s and beyond for apprentices whose basic education was inadequate would attend one day a week.
Some local schools were Bowling Green Evening Continuation School, Stainland, Priestwell Evening Continuation School, Stansfield, Robin Wood Evening Continuation School, Todmorden, Sowerby Bridge Evening Continuation Schools and Vale Evening Continuation School, Todmorden
| Copley Council School | Ref 18-72 |
The board school – designed by H. W. Booth – opened on 11th April 1904, and replaced the Copley Factory School built by Edward Akroyd.
This was the last school built for the Halifax School Board. The cost of the building was £8,500. It accommodated 214 boys & girls and 88 infants and 50 babies.
It accommodated 382 pupils [1911].
It accommodated 136 mixed & infants [1936].
The building was used by the Methodists for Sunday and weekday evening services.
The original school was demolished in 2018.
The new school was built on the Municipal Play Area next to the original school. The old school is now the Municipal Play Area, and the original school gates are now the entrance to the car park.
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| Copley Evening School | Ref 18-621 |
| Copley Factory School | Ref 18-182 |
The school opened in 1849 as a part of Copley model village.
Edward Akroyd appointed Rev Thomas Markey as Curate for the Copley Schools [1849-1851].
He was succeeded by Rev James Hope
In 1853, G. H. Gibson was in charge of the school.
In 1862, Rev J. G. Sedgwick was in charge of the school. There were 233 pupils [including 212 half-timers] at the boys' school, and 238 pupils [all half-timers] at the girls' school.
In 1899, the school was taken over by Halifax School Board and became a Board School. When the school proved to be too expensive to maintain, a new school was built and opened in 1904. The factory school was demolished in the 1970s
| Copley National School | Ref 18-883 |
Pupils recorded here include
| Copley Primary School | Ref 18-103 |
| Copper Street Ladies' School, Halifax | Ref 18-837 |
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| Cornholme Board School | Ref 18-6 |
A board school recorded in 1889. It accommodated 453 children [1917]
| Cornholme British School | Ref 18-C400 |
| Cornholme Council School | Ref 18-585 |
| Cornholme Junior, Infant & Nursery School | Ref 18-104 |
It superseded the school at Mount Zion Methodist Church, Cornholme
| Cornholme New School | Ref 18-332 |
| Corrie's: Miss Corrie's School, Hebden Bridge | Ref 18-753 |
| Cottonstones National School | Ref 18-46 |
| Cowsill's School for Young Ladies, Todmorden | Ref 18-479 |
See William Cowsill
| Crabtree's: Ann Crabtree's School | Ref 18-373 |
A private school run by Ann Crabtree at her home in Foxen Lane Head, Mill Bank around 1850.
The scholars included children from Lumb Mill and Kebroyd Mills.
It was superseded by St Mary's National School
| Crabtree's School, Hebden Bridge | Ref 18-689 |
Miss Elizabeth Crabtree had a school at Hebden Villas, Hangingroyd Lane, Hebden Bridge [1905]
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| Crabtree's School, Todmorden | Ref 18-614 |
| Cragg Vale Council School | Ref 18-591 |
| Cragg Vale Junior & Infant School | Ref 18-105 |
In March 2017, the governing bodies of Cragg Vale Junior & Infant School and Calder High School agreed to amalgamate.
The School closed in July 2017, and relocated to new premises on the site of Calder High School
| Cragg Vale National School | Ref 18-36 |
| Crimsworth Board School | Ref 18-256 |
On 12th May 1879, a school was started in the Sunday School of Crimsworth Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. There were 80 scholars. By the end of the year, this number had risen to 104.
The new school opened on 22nd March 1880. Adam Gillibrand taught here.
The school was called Crimsworth Board School between 1879 and 1904, and Crimsworth Council School between 1904 and 1948. It closed in May 1948.
It was demolished in the 1970s.
In the early 1980s, two bungalows were built using the stone of the demolished school. The school house remains as a private dwelling
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| Crimsworth Council School | Ref 18-333 |
| Crimsworth Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School | Ref 18-C1836 |
It has been converted into flats
| The Croft School, Sowerby Bridge | Ref 18-297 |
It was used as a Sunday School and as a day school. There were 2 rooms, one for boys and one for girls.
By 1833, it had become too small and larger premises were required. Sowerby Bridge National School was built and the children moved to the new building at the bottom of Tuel Lane in 1837
| Cromwell Bottom School | Ref 18-199 |
| Cross Hill School, Halifax | Ref 18-451 |
| Cross Hills Girls' School, Halifax | Ref 18-334 |
| Cross Lane Primary & Nursery School | Ref 18-106 |
| Cross Lanes Day School, Hebden Bridge | Ref 18-982 |
Samuel Fielding attended the school [1857]
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| Cross Lanes United Methodist School, Hebden Bridge | Ref 18-967 |
| Cross Stone Day School | Ref 18-200 |
The building served as the jail – the stocks are still there – and the top room was Cross Stone School and the schoolmaster's house.
A plaque inscribed:
Train up a child in the way he should go And when he is old he will not depart from it Prov XX11 6 |
William Dewhirst was master here [1842].
The school closed in 1846 when it was superseded by the National School.
The building is now known as School House
| Cross Stone National School | Ref 18-304 |
James Bracewell was headmaster [1864-1899]
| Cross Stone Sunday School, Stansfield | Ref 18-424 |
Train up a Child in the way he should go and, when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov: XXII.6 1805 Thos. Ashworth Sculp.
| Crossley & Porter School, Halifax | Ref 18-C206 |
This was originally the Crossley Orphanage.
In 1887, Thomas Porter made a donation on condition that his name be included in the name of the institution, and a Royal Charter of 31st January 1887 renamed the institution The Crossley and Porter Orphan Home and School.
In 1985, Crossley and Porter School amalgamated with Heath Grammar School to become The Crossley Heath School.
See Crossley & Porter School Memorials, Crossley-Heath School and Old Crossleians RUFC
| Mrs Crossley's Boarding School | Ref 18-968 |
Her grandson John Crossley wrote that
[This was] one of the best boarding schools for young ladies in the neighbourhood of Halifax
| Crossley-Heath School | Ref 18-C205 |
In November 2002, the school came fifth in the Sunday Times Parent Power table of northern state schools.
In January 2005, it was named as the best state-funded school in Yorkshire, with 99 per cent of pupils getting 5 or more top-grade GCSE passes.
See Crossley-Heath School and North Halifax Grammar School
| Crowther's: Jane Crowther's School | Ref 18-696 |
| Crowther's: John Crowther's School | Ref 18-8 |
His pupils included Ezra Pinder
| Cullingworth's School, Greetland | Ref 18-862 |
| Cusworth's School, Halifax | Ref 18-682 |
It was the successor to Walton's School
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