Scholes National School, Cleckheaton

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Built as National School, New Road, Scholes in 1847, the first master and pupils came from the Old School. A seperate infants department was built in 1872 - 1873, it then became known as Scholes Church of England School from c1900 and a primary school only in 1937. It changed to an infants only school in 1963 after which it became a nursery and ceased to be linked to the Church of England in 1974. The school closed c1990 - 1991. The earliest recorded log book for the school is dated 1873.