Editing Staines-upon-Thames (section)

===Early schools===
[[File:The School House Front View post 1980s extension.jpg|thumb|right|[[The School House, Staines-upon-Thames, UK|The old school house]] on Thames Street]]
The surviving first record of a schoolmaster in Staines is from 1353 and there are mentions of later postholders in documents dating from 1580 to 1673. However, by the 18th century, it appears that there was no dedicated teacher living in the town and, in 1795, the parish clerk was in receipt of a modest salary to teach four children.<ref name=Mansfield_1991_pp58-59>{{harvnb|Mansfield|1991|pp=58–59}}</ref> The British Boys' School in Staines was founded in 1808 and the girls' school was in existence by 1832. By 1852, the boys' school was in Hale Street and was educating around 35 pupils. An infants' school was founded in 1833, which moved with the girls school to Thames Street in 1867.<ref name=Mansfield_1991_pp58-59/> The two schools moved again to larger premises in the same road, but [[The School House, Staines-upon-Thames, UK|the 1867 schoolhouse]] still survives behind the shop fronts.<ref name=Reynolds_1962_pp32-33>{{harvnb|Reynolds|1962|pp=32–33}}</ref> [[National school (England and Wales)|National Schools]] for boys and girls were established in 1818 and in the mid-1820s respectively, but both closed for around a decade before reopening in the mid-1840s. The girls' school moved to new premises in Bridge Street in 1850 and the boys' school relocated to London Road in 1863.<ref name=Mansfield_1991_pp58-59/>