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individual English schools -- Broom Leys School
Individual English Schools-- Broom Leys School
Figure 1.-- This school is a little complicated and we do not fully understand the history of the school. We have found a panorama school portrait (1937). It is titled Broom Leys School. It was located in Coalville, Leicestershire. As best we can tell, the name comes from a small road in Coalville. The term school is commonly used for a small, local primary school. This was very different. It was not only large school of several hundred students, but it was a coed school. It looks rather like a prep school, but there are students clearly older than 13 year olds. The age range includes prep age children (8-13 year olds) and older secondary students. We do not see the younger primary children. We think it might be a coed grammar school. .
This school is a little complicated and we do not fully understand the history of the school. We have found a panorama school portrait (1937). It is titled Broom Leys School. It was located in Coalville, Leicestershire. As best we can tell, the name comes from a small road in Coalville. The term school is commonly used for a small, local primary school. This was very different. It was not only large school of several hundred students, but it was a coed school. It looks rather like a prep school, but there are students clearly older than 13 year olds. The age range includes prep age children (8-13 year olds) and older secondary students. We do not see the younger primary children. We think it might be a coed grammar school. Although it was a substntialchool, we can find no trace of the school on the internet. Coed schools wee unusual at the time, especially schools for older secondary-level students. Today we do see Broom Hill Primary. It has a red brick building dating to this period, but it is a small building that cold not have possibly accommodated several hundred students. We do bot know if there was a connection with the earllier larger school. We note that the modern primary school is part of the Lionheart Educational Trust And it is classified as an Academy converter. .
