School With a 130-Year History

THE 1870 Education Act was the catalyst for the founding of the school which became Edgewick Primary School.

The government of the time was worried that not enough children were being educated and passed an Education Act setting up school boards around the country. Their job was to open more schools.

The Foleshill School Board built and opened a school on the primary school’s current site in Cross Road in 1876. The school took pupils up to the age of 14 which was when most left to start paid work.

After the war education was reorganised nationally and the school became a primary school taking pupils up to 11.

In the 1970s the original Victorian buildings were deemed no longer suitable and were knocked down. The current buildings were built alongside on the same site.

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