• A National School (for boys, girls and infants) was built in 1844-45 in Queen Street and enlarged in 1879.
   
• The Green School (for boys) was formerly the Grammar School.
   
• The Infants School was built near the church in 1895-6.
   
• The Wesleyan School, on Maltby Lane, was built in 1866. The school closed in 1915.
   
• Bernard SHARP has a photograph of the Maltby Lane School on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
   
• The Catholic School was built in 1878 in Fleetgate.
   
• St. Chad's School, on Waterside Road, opened in 1905.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
   

Schools kept a record of each student who was admitted. Unfortunately, they weren't required to deposit those records with the local archive office. Find out how to research school records on our Schools page. While you are there, check out our list of teachers and headmasters.

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.