Similar schools were started by charities in other towns.
In 1844, the Ragged School Union was formed and was supported
by the chairman, Lord Shaftesbury, and Charles Dickens.
Originally, there were 16 schools associated with the Union, and by
1861 there were 176 schools in the union.
See
Halifax Ragged School Trust and
Industrial school
in connection with Square Chapel, Halifax.
The School opened on 2nd May 1855.
William White Sherren was master of the School.
Rev B. Bond was minister here [1869].
A boys' and mixed school.
It could accommodate 322 pupils [1871].
It was discontinued around 1880 and the building was used as a Sunday
School.
See
Portland Road Board School, Claremount and
Range Bank Sunday School
This & associated entries use material contributed by Stella Spencer
The Sunday School opened in April 1854.
This was the only Nonconformist place of worship in Halifax North Ward, until New Bank Primitive Methodist Church opened in 1864.
The Sunday School closed in August 1954.
See
Range Bank Day School and
Range Bank Sunday School Memorial
An article in the Bradford Observer [2nd November 1837] reported:
The evening passed very delightfully; the attendance and spirit
manifested affording a gratifying augury of the success of this
attempt to difuse the blessings of education.
The boy's school is to be opened on Monday next
which suggests that the School opened on 6th November 1837.
The first head was William Lundy.
He left to set up Prospect Place Academy.
See
Rastrick & Brighouse Horticultural Society
This & associated entries use material contributed by Andy Eccles
In 1890, a new school was built at Healey Wood Terrace, Rastrick
See
Joseph Travis Clay and
Rastrick Grammar School
Aka Rastrick Common Council School.
Built around 1830.
It cost £300.
Half of the money was raised by public subscription and with
donations from the local Clay family.
The builder [name not known] was imprisoned at York, after a local
woman accused him of being in debt to her.
The local foreman left in charge of the construction made several
journeys to York on horseback to get instructions from the builder
It accommodated 312 boys [1917]
Around 1500, the curate of Rastrick Chapel started a school in the
chapel.
In 1621, John Hanson left an annual sum of 20/- to the Church
In the 18th century, Mary Law endowed a school in the district and
a school was built around 1722.
In 1804, the school was rebuilt.
It accommodated 98 children.
In 1881, it was extended and a house built for the headmaster
In 1894, an additional block was built at a cost of £1,700,
with chemical and physical laboratories and lecture room, with a
workshop and gymnasium in the basement.
In 1910, the buildings were extended and remodelled at a cost of
£5,000.
In September 1985 it merged with Reins Wood School to become
Rastrick High School.
The original building is now a preparatory school.
Pupils at the school have included
See
History of Rastrick Grammar School 1621-1985,
Rastrick Church School and
Rastrick Grammar School Memorial
The school is a Technology College and Sixth Form College.
In November 2009, an Ofsted report praised the way in which the school
Closed in 19?? when the children moved to Whitehill Primary & Junior School
Established in 19?? from the former Akroydon Infants' School and
Boothtown Junior & Infants' School.
The School was built on the site of
St Peter Street, Boothtown,
St Mark's Street, Boothtown,
Martin Street, Boothtown,
Luther Street, Boothtown,
and
Weber Street, Boothtown.
The primary department of the former Sunnyside Board School moved
here
This & associated entries use material contributed by Chris Battye
In 1996, it was named as the worst school in Britain after
having descended into anarchy with problems of discipline and attacks
on the teachers.
The local authority closed the school when pupils ran riot and
attacked teachers.
The teachers threatened strike action.
The school was rescued by the appointment of new head
teachers, Peter Clark and Anna White.
In March 2007, it was in the headlines again when inspectors
from Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education, reported
that the school was failing to give pupils an acceptable standard of
education, and the Schools Minister, Lord Adonis, said that
The school was scheduled for demolition in July 2009.
Campaigners hoped to save the building for community use.
In November 2010, there were proposals to open the building as a
Health Centre.
The Infants' School to Ripponden School was built, at a cost of
£884, in 1887.
It closed in 1980.
It is now a private house
Recorded in 1845 & 1905.
See
Rev Joseph Gledhill,
Charles George Hewitt,
Hirstwood's Charities and
Platt's Charities
Several local families contributed to the cost.
The school was built, at a cost of £431, in 1843.
Classrooms were added in 1870 and in 1880.
The Infants' School was built in 1887.
The playground was added in 1910
Click here to read Thelma Woosey's memories of Ripponden Stones County School
See
Henry Whiteley
See
Zion Congregational Church, Ripponden
A new purpose-built School was erected in 1897, and opened by
William Hopkinson Barrett [1898].
This stood behind the Chapel.
See
Rishworth Particular Baptist Sunday School Memorial and
Eli Whiteley
In 1724, John Wheelwright of Goathouse, Rishworth provided an
endowment for the education of 20 boys and girls, children of the
poorest tenants and workers on his estate.
See
Mrs Elizabeth Bradley,
Heathfield School, Rishworth,
Harry Ludlam,
Mr Masten,
Old Rishworthians' RUFC,
John Selwyn Rawson,
Rishworth School War Memorials and
Rishworth School Chapel
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham & Anne Kirker
It is recorded as an infants' school and could accommodate 24 pupils
[1871]
Closed in 19??
It is now an outdoor centre
In 1993, Robinwood Activity Centres turned the school into a
children's activity centre
It was enlarged in 1887, 1892 and 1898.
In October 1891, George Crosland was killed as the School was being
altered.
It accommodated 1,038 pupils [1917].
It was demolished in the 1970s.
The local health centre now stands on the site.
See
Todmorden & Hebden Bridge School Board
See
Joshua Holden
See
Memories Sport at Roomfield Schoolyard
Recorded in 1905, 1907 & 1911.
It accommodated around 96 pupils,
girls up to 19 years of age, and boys up to 9 [1907].
In 1911, the staff at the school includes 2 Sick Nurses:
Mary Robb Keir [aged 31] from Perth, Scotland, and
Gertrude Norris [aged 27] from Herne Hill, London.
This & associated entries use material contributed by Ivan Birch
Ragged school Ref 18-265 
Ramsden's School Clifton Ref 18-386 Ramsden's Writing Institution Ref 18-384 Range Bank Day School, Halifax Ref 18-326
for the daily instruction of children in religious and secular, and
to impart the truths of the Bible to classes assembling on the
Sabbath Day
Range Bank Sunday School Ref 18-139 Rastrick & Brighouse British School Ref 18-187
A social tea party was held in the new school-room on Rastrick
Common, on Monday last in support of the Rastrick & Brighouse
School.
Rastrick Board School Ref 18-R256 Rastrick Church School Ref 18-888 Rastrick Common Council School Ref 18-659 Rastrick Country Secondary School Ref 18-872 Rastrick Free School Ref 18-675 Rastrick Grammar School Ref 18-R12
for the teaching of a school there
on an elevated & exceptionally healthy site
Masters at the School have included:
Joseph Travis Clay
Charles Ronald Firth
Harold Hoyle
Fred Job
Reginald Mitchell
Spence Ormerod
John Ernest Walker
Rastrick High School Ref 18-R1 Rastrick Independent School Ref 18-611
Rastrick National School Ref 18-178 Ravenscliffe High School, Skircoat Green Ref 18-51
dealt with complex educational needs, behavioural difficulties,
disabilities and pupils excluded from mainstream schools
Raw Lane Infants' School Ref 18-107 Raw Lane School, Ovenden Ref 18-327 Rawson's Factory School, Sowerby Bridge Ref 18-366 Rawson Junior, Infants' & Nursery School Ref 18-134
Redgate School, Stainland Ref 18-980 Reins Wood School Ref 18-83 Rhoebottom's Infants' School Ref 18-511 Ridings School Ref 18-R145
Calderdale Council should consider complete closure
Ripponden & District Technical School Ref 18-294
Ripponden did better – in proportion to the number of
inhabitants – than any other centre in the West Riding
Ripponden Infants' School Ref 18-604
Ripponden Junior & Infants' School Ref 18-135
Ripponden National School Ref 18-291 Ripponden School Ref 18-292
for teaching and instructing poor children on the Lords's Day,
according to the doctrine of the Church of England, and ... to suffer
the same to be used as a week-day school
Ripponden Stones County School Ref 18-79 Ripponden Sunday School Ref 18-420 Ripponden Zion Congregational Evening School Ref 18-48 Rishworth National School Ref 18-293 Rishworth Particular Baptist Sunday School Ref 18-897
Rishworth School Ref 18-R108 
Riverside Junior & Infant School Ref 18-R212
Robertshaw's School, Halifax Ref 18-523 Robertshaw's School, Halifax Ref 18-569 Robinwood Board School, Todmorden Ref 18-807
Robinwood Evening Continuation School, Todmorden Ref 18-350 Robinwood Junior & Infants' School, Todmorden Ref 18-65 Robinwood Mill School, Todmorden Ref 18-359 Rogers's School Ref 18-660 Roomfield Board School, Todmorden Ref 18-R234 
Roomfield Council School, Todmorden Ref 18-583 Roomfield Higher Grade School Ref 18-269 Roomfield Junior School Ref 18-845
Roomfield Secondary School, Todmorden Ref 18-584 Ross's School, Halifax Ref 18-778 Rothery's: Betty Rothery's School, Wainstalls Ref 18-242 Rothery's: Sam Rothery's School, Wainstalls Ref 18-241 Rouse's: Misses Rouse Girls' School Ref 18-469
Rupin Riding School Ref 18-882 Ryburn Valley High School, Sowerby Ref 18-449
Ryburne House Seminary Ref 18-290
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