A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



Town Council were added to the governing body, and the ' hybrid committee ' 

 ceased to exist. 



In July, 1 900, the head master made arrangements for the whole upper 

 school to pass through the four years' course of the Board of Education as a 

 Class A School. 



The numbers in the school in spite of increased competition due 

 to the founding of the Dean Close School, which was opened during the 

 rebuilding of the grammar school had risen from 17 to between 140 and 

 1 50 boys. 



After the incorporation of the school of science the numbers showed a 

 tendency to fall, and by the end of 1900 they had fallen as low as 115. The 

 numbers remained at this low ebb during the troubled period which followed 

 the remodelling of the governing body in 1900, and it was not until public 

 confidence had become reassured that the numbers again increased, and in 

 1905 and in the beginning of 1906 there were 165 boys in the school, the 

 present number being 153. 



In 1900 a further amendment of the scheme provided for the appointment 

 of five representatives by the County Council, five by the Town Council, 

 together with the Mayor ex qfficio, four by Corpus Christi College, and two 

 by the parents. 



The County Council undertook to give a grant to the school of not less 

 than 1,000, and the governors became the authority for the supply of higher 

 education over a wide area of nearly 100 small towns and villages in the 

 neighbourhood of Cheltenham, in which lectures and classes were held by 

 the staff of the grammar school, assisted by visiting instructors. The 

 governors also became responsible for the school of art, which had been 

 languishing for lack of support. 



In July, 1906, the head master availed himself of the opportunity 

 offered by the new scheme to retire. 



Harold Sydney Jones, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he 

 was gth wrangler in 1888, then head mathematical and science master of 

 University College School, is the present head master. 



CHELTENHAM GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



In 1901 the governors added a Pupil Teachers' Centre to the work they 

 had undertaken. It was opened in the Clarence Street Buildings, and was taught 

 by the staff of the grammar school, a mistress being specially appointed for the 

 care and oversight of the girls, who greatly outnumbered the boy pupil- 

 teachers. Other girls, too, who were not pupil-teachers were admitted as 

 bye-students on the payment of fees the numbers soon outgrew the accom- 

 modation, and before the end of 1904 there were about 90 girls and some 10 

 or 1 2 boys receiving instruction in the classes. 



In 1904 the governors purchased Livorno Lodge, in North Street,, 

 which by alterations and additions was adapted for the purpose of a day- 

 school for girls. 



It was opened in January, 1905, as the County High School for Girls, 

 under the head-mistress-ship of Miss Heatley, M.A., London, assisted by a well- 

 qualified staff of mistresses, and in 1906 its numbers had already reached 140. 



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