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The earliest education in Leicester was provided bythe Abbey of St. Mary in the Meadows, and a publicgrammar school probably existed in the town fromthe early 13th century. (fn. 52) The canons also maintainedan almonry school, but by the 16th century it seemsthat both these schools had lapsed, the former fromdecay, aggravated by the dissolution of ...

The same scheme which refounded the WyggestonHospital Boys' School provided for a girls' schoolunder the same foundation, under the managementof five ladies, to act in co-operation with the governors. (fn. 71) There were to be 200 day scholars, and inmost respects the curricula and general arrangementswere to be the same as for the boys' school. Ne...

In 1760, Alderman Gabriel Newton, a prominentand wealthy member of the corporation, with whichhe had been associated for rather more than fiftyyears, conveyed to the mayor and corporation ofLeicester land in several places in the county for thefoundation of schools in various English towns andvillages. (fn. 74) The corporation was given the right o...

The City Boys' School was opened in 1920, when theformer Newarke school was divided, and was atfirst housed in the former Great Meeting schoolbuilding in East Bond Street. In 1928 it moved to thebuildings recently vacated by the Wyggeston Girls'School in Humberstone Gate, which have since beenextended. There were 294 pupils in 1924 and 474 in1952.

The serious alarm felt in the town during the 1830'sat the decay of the Free Grammar School during thelater days of the headmastership of Richard Daviesled to the formation of a company to found a newschool, the shareholders having the right to sendtheir sons to it, in the proportion of one child forevery share, up to a maximum of four. (fn. 82) Th...

The Gateway School for Boys was established in1928 by the Leicester Education Committee, forboys between the ages of 11 and 16, whose interestswere not primarily academic. (fn. 84) Emphasis was therefore laid on education of a technical nature. Theschool was at first housed in Skeffington House andan adjoining building in the Newarke, but in 1939 i...

The Newarke Girls' School was originally establishedas a mixed secondary school with premises in Newarke Street. In 1919, after the retirement of the thenheadmaster, the Newarke school was converted intoan all-girls' school, with 500 pupils. In 1932 the schoolwas moved for a short time to the new premisesrecently built for the Gateway School in Fai...

The alarm felt in nonconformist circles in Leicesterabout the foundation and limitations of the newCollegiate School in 1835 led to the foundation of asecond and similar company in the same year. Theschool was opened in 1837 in a grand classical building by Joseph Hansom in the New Walk. It beganwith 128 boys, but the fees charged were too low fort...

Little information exists about the foundation ofprivate schools. Some have already been noted underelementary and grammar school education, and anyunendowed school which existed in Leicester duringthe 17th and early 18th centuries must of course havebeen privately owned and maintained. Until the 19thcentury there are no lists of private schools an...