Opened as a British school on 1st April 1901 and transferred to Wiltshire County Council in 1909. In 1926 an infants' school was provided and in 1931 Newtown became a senior mixed school. In 1940 the older pupils moved to the new Nelson Haden Senior School and Newtown became a junior mixed school. From 1954 it was known as the Newtown County School.