Books and Information on Education in England

 As I am reading chapter 19 Education  in my text book Ancestral Trail: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History  by Mark Herber, I am pulling out books and sources to check for more information on education as several of the Litchfield grandchildren were listed as scholars on the census records.  It would be interesting to understand what those schools were actually like and perhaps find the local schools that they attended

• For a detailed survey of British education and relevant records check The growth of British education and its records by Colin R Chapman,  Lochin Publishing, 2 nd edition, 1992 [Family History LIbrary book 942 J2cr].
•  Colin R. Chapman, Using Education Records (Federation of Family History Societies, 1999)
  [Adapted from Anthony Camp's article 'Schools and their records: Part 2' in Practical Family History (UK), no. 68 (August 2003) pages 8-10.
• Administration of the education system since the 19th century is described by P Ridon in Record sources for local history,  Baston 1987
• For the lives of 19th and 20th Century school children check out The Victorian and Edwardian schoolchild  by P Horn, Sutton 1989
• Information on Victorian Schools can be found in The Victorian Schoolroom by T May, Shire 1994
• For a list of older schools indexed by county try The Local Historian's Encyclopedia  by J Richardson,  Historical Publications 3rd edn 2003
• For a list of school registers of Britain through 1963 check Registers of the universities, colleges and schools of Great Britain and Ireland  by PM Jacobs, Athlone Press for the IHR 1964
• Great on-line source for Education in Britain https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/England_Schools
  

General Education Information:

• 1870 - Elementary Education Act divided England and Wales into school districts with elected school boards who were to establish schools at the public's expense.  Poor children often excluded
•  1876 & 1880 Acts - prohibited the child labor for children under 10 and children up to 13 were required to attend school
• 1880 - Beginning of school administration records
• 1891 - Additional government funding allowed for free elementary school to all children
• 1902 - schools taken over by the local educational authority

To find the local school - check a directory of the area, County Record Office Catalogues, County histories and old town maps might help locate a local school.  Look for a published school history.  Family History Societies might have school information.

School Records in Family History Library 

The school records held by the Family History Library are found in the Place Search of the Library Catalog under one of the following:
ENGLAND - SCHOOLS
ENGLAND, [COUNTY] - SCHOOLS
ENGLAND, [COUNTY], [PARISH] - SCHOOLS
See also Lance Jacob, Register of English school, college, and university registers housed in the collection of the Genealogical Society of Utah as of April 1981 [Family History LIbrary typescript 942 J24c].