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Raunds - Charity School

The Select Committee on Education of the Poor 1818 reported that there was:
"A School, in which 14 children are taught; the master's salary is 14£ per annum, arising from the rent of land in the parish, producing that sum.
A school on the Madras system, supported by voluntary contributions; and schools for small children, containing together 97 children; and several lace schools, consiting of 70".
The poorer classes have not sufficient means of educating their children, and for want of a Church of England school, have till lately sent them to dissenting schools.

Catherine Peaps (wife of Samuel Pepys, and cousin of Robert Grumbold) by her will of 1703, left £100 to endow a school for the poor, and it was held in the vestry of St Peter's Church. This charity school in 1823, with additional funds and subscriptions of one penny a week, then became a National School and could take all the village children, except those who chose to attend one of the several private schools.

In 1859 the National School moved to new premises on the corner of Manor Road and High Street.

In 1870 and infant school was opened by the Church of England.

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