Amesbury Church of England Aided Junior School

The National School began in 1825 in Salisbury Street, after which two small schools already existing closed. The school was managed by the Antrobus family in their own premises until 1900. In 1833 there were 17 boys and 47 girls and in 1841 an infants' school was started. An extra classroom was built in 1858 and in 1867 the attendance averaged between 70 and 80. From the 1850s to the 1870s an evening class was also held during the winter months. In 1901 the

National and Infants' schools were replaced by a new National School, for all ages, in Back Lane, with five classrooms and five teachers. The school buildings cost £4,000 with the site being presented by Sir Edmund Antrobus. Rose's and Spratt's schools were closed and the children attending them were transferred to the new school. The workhouse school had also closed. The school was built to take 137 boys and girls and 68 infants and in 1902 there were 203 pupils, including 70 infants. Numbers varied between 180 and 210 over the next few years, with 212 on the register in 1927. In 1928 a county infants' school was built behind the police station and the National School became known as Amesbury Church of England School. In 1937 there were 171 pupils, aged from 8 to 14 years, on the school roll. In 1938 a site was purchased for a new Church of England secondary school but no school was built until the county council built Amesbury Secondary Modern School on the site in 1957-8.

The Church of England School had been enlarged in 1957 and, when pupils aged 11 years and over were transferred to the new secondary modern school in 1958, it became a junior school for children aged from 7 to 11 years. It was now called Amesbury Church of England Aided Junior School. Pupils enter the school in year 3 from Amesbury Infants' School, which is on the same site. In 1991 there were 250 pupils but, as the town grew rapidly in the 1990s, numbers increased and by 1999 there were 309 on the register. Children come to the school from Amesbury and the local villages and in 2002 there were 330 pupils aged from 7 to 11 years.