Fisherton Anger National School, Salisbury

The school was built in 1844 on the site of the former workhouse besides St. Clement's church (church demolished in 1852). By 1853 there were two teachers, 55 boys and 33 girls, who each paid one penny a week. In 1859 there were between 70 and 80 boys and girls plus 30 infants under a separate mistress. The building proved to be too small for the increasing numbers and in 1868 a new school, costing £2,000, was built in Wilton Road and the old school was sold. The new school had two rooms for boys, two for girls and one for infants. In 1870 the average attendance was 89 boys, 56 girls and 96 infants, all of whom paid a penny or twopence a week for their schooling. In 1878 an extra room was added.

In 1889 the Fisherton British School closed and the children transferred to the National School which was extended and re-organised so that there was accommodation for 559 children, although the average attendance was 394. In 1890 the newly built school in St. Paul's Road took the boys and the junior girls. The senior girls and the infants stayed in Wilton Road. In the 1890s the total accommodation on both sites was nearly 1,100 with an average attendance of 630, which had risen to nearly 800 by 1909. As a result of the First World War the Wilton Road school closed in 1915 and was occupied by the army. The senior girls and infants moved to St. Paul's Road while the senior boys moved into the Victoria Hall in Rollestone Street and the junior boys into the Devizes Road Mission Hall. The army left the Wilton Road school in 1920 and this was re-occupied by the junior boys. The Victoria Hall opened as a temporary council school in 1920 with accommodation for 200 senior boys but was very crowded. In 1922 the Hall closed and the senior boys joined the junior boys in Wilton Road.

A new school, Fisherton Anger (later Highbury Avenue) School was built in 1924 which allowed the Wilton Road school to be abandoned and the St. Paul's Road school in three departments for 110 junior boys, 160 junior girls and 180 infants. By 1932 the boys' department was overcrowded and the school changed to a mixed junior department. The junior and infants' departments amalgamated in 1940 and in 1944 became a voluntary aided school. In 1955 there were 296 pupils and in 1972 a new school was built at Richmond Road off the Devizes Road. This is now known as Sarum St. Paul's C.E. Primary School.