Early Schools, Berwick St James
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Berwick St James possessed a dame school with 25 pupils in 1818, for which the parents would pay “a few pence a day”. This school continued to at least 1856, when it had 30-40 fee-paying pupils on its rolls. There are no further mentions of this school after the founding of Berwick St James Church of England School in 1856. Another school, possibly the dame school, had 50 pupils in 1833 and was a National School in 1846.
Other documented education in the parish consisted of a Parish Sunday and Day School, referred to in 1846 as having 38 boys and girls on its roll who were taught by a mistress who was paid £15 a year via voluntary subscriptions and the payment of fees.