Westport Church of England School, Malmesbury

There was a National School in the Guildhall in Oxford Street from about 1820. The Westport school was built in, or before, 1851 and further buildings were added between 1855 and 1857. In 1857 there were 63 boys and 34 girls, but from 1859 this became the National School for Boys. In the early 1860s there were around 100 pupils and gardening was one of the subjects taught. In 1900 there were 150 boys aged bewteen 8 and 12 and about 60 infants. In the 1920s the infants moved to the Cross Hayes girls' school. It remained an elementary school until 1954 when a secondary modern school opened in new buildings at Corn Gastons and Westport became a primary school. It closed in 1964 when a new primary school was built at Tetbury Hill.