National School, Coate, Bishops Cannings

In the school survey of 1859 it was recorded that '20 to 30 children are taught under the Rector's eye by a motherly woman of limited attainments in the flagged kitchen of a cottage'. The school was regarded as a feeder school to the National School at Bishops Cannings. A school was built in 1876 with contributions from the Diocesan Church Building Association with the proviso that the building was also to be used for worship. There was a screen between the church and school areas, and in the latter there was an infants' class and a mixed class for older children. In the early 20th century the attendance averaged 32 but this fell to 29 after the First World War and in the 1920s. After 1923 children aged over 11 attended other schools and in 1929, despite local opposition, the school was closed. The building was later used as the village hall.