Education in Street

In the 1800s there were several denominational Sunday schools and dame schools. Attempts to set up a joint Anglican and nonconformist day school failed in 1827 because of religious differences between the promoters Frances Clark and Susannah Hawkins, but in 1831 the Street and Walton British school was started in Teetotal Row, later West End. In 1833 only 47 boys and 42 girls received a daily education at voluntary schools.

A National School had been established by 1839 when it taught 52 children on weekdays and 42 on Sundays but by 1847 it took infants only and it was said that the school declined after 1850. However it remained open probably until 1874 when the school board was formed. 

In the early 20th-century Street pioneered co-educational secondary education, training in cookery and housewifery for girls going into service and special needs education.

See volume 9 of the Victoria County History of Somerset for a full history.