Highbury Avenue Council School, Salisbury

In 1921 it was decided to build the first permanent council school in the city at Fisherton Anger. This was also the first non-denominational school in the city and it opened on a two acre site in 1924. There were three departments, boys girls and infants, each with accommodation for 180 children. By 1926 there were three headteachers, 12 teachers, 185 boys, 131 girls and 114 infants. The number of children increased over the next few years and in 1932 it was decided to build an extension for an extra 400 children.

This was completed in 1933 and provided accommodation in two blocks; one with space for 282 junior children and 226 infants and the other for 480 senior children. The latter block included science laboratories, domestic science rooms and workshops. The first was now known as Highbury County Primary School and the latter became a secondary mixed school known, from 1935, as Highbury Avenue Council School. In 1944 the latter became a secondary modern school and by 1955 there were 343 pupils.