Hyde Park Junior School
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| Established | Spring 1904 |
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| Type | Community junior school |
| Headteacher | Tina Jackson |
| Location |
Hyde Park Road Plymouth Devon PL3 4RH England |
| Local authority | Plymouth |
| DfE number | 879/2636 |
| DfE URN | 113274 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 13 teachers, and 30 support staff |
| Students | 360 |
| Gender | Co-Educational |
| Ages | 7–11 |
| Houses | Meavy , Lynher , Tamar and Plym |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 50°23′08″N 4°08′14″W / 50.3856°N 4.1371°W
Hyde Park Junior School (HPJS), founded in 1904, is a state junior school located on Hyde Park Road, close to Mutley Plain in Plymouth, Devon, England. Catering for around 360 boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 11, it is housed in the same building as its partner school, Hyde Park Infants. The school's catchment area extends across part of the suburbs of Plymouth including Mutley and Mannamead.
Hyde Park School is built on the site where, in the 1590s, Thornhill House stood, which was occupied by Sir Francis Drake. Drake's Leat also ran past nearby.
The school building was designed by Henry John Snell (1843–1924), who was responsible for a number of Plymouth's 19th century buildings including Salisbury Road School, in the suburb of Mount Gould. Hyde Park was the last school designed and built by the Plymouth School Board before the local authority took over responsibility for education in 1903, and it was officially opened by the Mayor of Plymouth on 27 May 1904. Upon opening the school had the capacity for 512 infants on the ground floor, 480 girls on the first floor and 430 boys on the third floor as well as two classrooms in the basement and a large playground with covered sheds. By 1908, there were 1548 children registered at the school: 475 boys, 465 girls and 608 infants.
During World War I, Hyde Park along with Salisbury Road School, was used as a hospital and convalescent home. In the 1920s and 1930s, the school continued to run as three separate schools and it was common for there to be 50 children in a class. The three schools were the infant school, the junior school and the high school.
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