County Garrison Junior and Infants' School, Porton

This began as a garrison school, by 1932 at the latest, in a wooden hut. It was taken over by Wiltshire County Council on 1st April 1948 and moved to a new building for the start of the summer term on 6th April 1948. At this time it seems to have been an all age school but this was changed by the older children (11 years and over) being sent to Gomeldon School. By the late 1970s there were insuffient children to justify three schools in the parish and by 1980 it was decided to close Porton School and transfer the pupils to the schools at Idmiston and Gomeldon.

The school held a special Wessex Fayre on 10th July with over 200 people, parents, pupils and former pupils attending. The school had given £25 to Salisbury Museum for a chair, named Porton School, to be put in the new museum in The Close. The school finally closed on 16th July 1981 with a mystery unresolved. For at least 20 years they had received two Christmas cards from 'Father Christmas', written in the same rather old fashioned handwriting, addressed to 'The Headmistress, Staff and Scholars of Porton School'. One was for the Infants and the other for the Juniors. They never discovered where they came from.