Editing Clifton, York (section)

==Education==

[[File:Hall range St Peter's School York.jpg | thumb | 220x124px | right | St Peter’s School facing onto Clifton]]
[[St Peter's School, York|St. Peter's School]], an independent, co-educational secondary school was founded in the 7th century, and is the [[List of the oldest schools in the world|third oldest school in the world]]. St Peter's was originally the school attached to [[York Minster]]. The school is where [[Guy Fawkes]] was educated. [[Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls]] began as the Municipal Secondary School for Girls in 1906, located in Brook Street, and was officially recognised as a secondary school in 1908. The Brook Street premises were closed in 1909 and pupils transferred to a new school building, on a {{frac|5|1|2}}-acre site on Queen Anne's Road, Clifton. New classrooms and additional cloakrooms were erected in 1914. The school closed in 2000 and the campus was taken over by St Olave's School, the junior school of St Peter's.<ref name="Schools"/>

Clifton National School for Girls and Infants or Burton Stone Lane School, was opened in 1841. In 1878 the girls were transferred to the new Clifton girls' school and Burton Lane continued as an infants' school until 1892 when they rejoined the girls' school. The Burton Lane School was closed in 1892 and the building demolished. In 1914, additional accommodation for the infants was obtained in the parochial hall in Water Lane and the school itself was used for girls only. By 1932 the school had been reorganised to provide infant accommodation only. The school became a controlled voluntary primary school in 1950 and is known as Burton Green School.<ref name="Schools">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36380&strquery=clifton|title=Schools|accessdate=19 December 2010}}</ref>

Burton Stone Lane County Secondary Modern School was a girls' school, and sometimes known as Water Lane School, was opened in October 1942. The senior girls' department from Shipton Street School was transferred here and formed the nucleus of the school. The building was completed in 1945. As of 2010, it is the council run Burton Stone Community Centre.<ref name="Schools"/> 

Burdyke County Primary School in Kingsway North, on the Water Lane estate, was opened in September 1954. It is now Burton Green Primary School. Clifton Green Primary School is now known as Kingsway Junior School. Clifton is in the secondary school catchment area of the [[Vale of York Academy]] in Clifton Without.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.york.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/237/guide_to_school_catchment_areas.pdf|title=Guide to School Catchment Areas|publisher=City of York Council|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref>