• A local School Board was formed 1871.
   
• A National School was built here in 1846, but had been founded in 1726 by WIlliam ALVEY.
   
• Around 1900 a senior school was opened on Main Street and a primary school on London Road opened in 1903.
   
• Chuter Ede is a primary school which opened in 1964 on main Street and moved to Wolfit Avenue in 1967.
   
• Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of the Entrance to The Chuter Ede School on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.
   
• A private preparatory school, Highfields, is on the border with Newark.
   
• Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of the Entrance to Highfields School on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2012.
   
• The Grove School provides secondary education to eleven to eighteen year-olds as a science college. This became the Newark Academy after merging with the High School in 2012.
   
• Geoff DUNN has a photograph of the Grove Comprehensive School on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of Thomas Magnus School on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011. The school's proper name is "The Magnus Church of England Academy" on Earp Avenue in Newark. The school was formed from the amalgamation of two schools: the Magdalene High School, which was named after Newark’s Parish Church, St. Mary Magdalene, and The Thomas Magnus School (founded in 1531).

There are several Research Guides from The National Archives giving an excellent overview of the history of education in this country. Also look under keywords 'educational history' and 'schools'.

• UK Schools & Colleges Database: provides information on more than 31,000 UK state and independent Schools and Colleges, and over 29,000 UK School, College and University websites (as of June 2016).
• MissingAncestors.com (archived copy) - contains information on staff and students at Industrial/Reformatory Schools & the like during the 19th and early 20th century.
• Anguline Research Archives (archived copy) produce CDs of a number of major public school registers.
• Universities: Brief biographical details of graduates of Cambridge or Oxford Universities are provided in either Alumni Cantabrigienses by JA Venn or  Alumni Oxonienses : the Members of the University of Oxford, by Joseph Foster, respectively, which are particularly useful for C of E ministers.  They are available in various forms:
  • Hard copies are held by many public libraries, including Reading Central Library.  
  • Cambridge Alumni Database free online from Cambridge University.  See also their research guide. 
  • Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 and 1715-1886 free from Internet Archive.  
  • Online subscription access from Ancestry:  Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886  and  Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900.