List of former board schools in Brighton and Hove
Board schools
The "Date" column gives the date of completion of the building. The "Grade" column gives the listed building status if applicable.

List of former board schools in Brighton and Hove

Section Title: Board schools
Table Section Text: The "Date" column gives the date of completion of the building. The "Grade" column gives the listed building status if applicable.

Name	Image	Location	Date	Grade	Notes	Refs

Middle Street School (†)	—	The Lanes 50°49′21″N 0°08′34″W / 50.8226°N 0.1428°W	1809	—	The Union Charity School was founded by Edward Goff in 1807. It was for boys only, but a girls' school was added in 1809.

Puget's Schools (†)	—	The Lanes 50°49′20″N 0°08′24″W / 50.8222°N 0.1400°W	1861	—	These schools were in Clarence Yard behind North Street. They were taken over by the School Board in 1870.

Fairlight Place Board School	Fairlight Primary and Nursery School (former Board School), Fairlight Place, Brighton (January 2014) (1).JPG	Elm Grove 50°50′06″N 0°07′31″W / 50.8349°N 0.1252°W	1870	—	Fairlight Place itself was built up at the same time as the school. Thomas Simpson's building was remodelled in 1931 and is still in use with the name Fairlight Primary and Nursery School.

York Place Elementary Schools	City College Brighton & Hove (former York Place Board School), Pelham Street, Brighton (January 2014) (2).JPG	North Laine 50°49′43″N 0°08′10″W / 50.8286°N 0.1361°W	1870	—	Simpson's buildings were extended in 1884 when girls' and boys' secondary school buildings were added. These were named York Place Secondary School from 1898 and moved out in 1926 and 1931 respectively to the new Varndean School campus (built by Gilbert Murray Simpson).

Hanover Terrace Board School	—	Hanover 50°49′51″N 0°07′43″W / 50.8308°N 0.1285°W	1873	—	Thomas Simpson built this school on a narrow site between Hanover Terrace, which had been developed in the early 1830s, and Coleman Street.

Richmond Street Board School	—	Carlton Hill 50°49′35″N 0°07′58″W / 50.8264°N 0.1327°W	1873	—	This was the first Brighton school to offer meals to pupils. It was one part of the Richmond Street/Sussex Street schools complex which ran along Claremont Row between the two streets.

Sussex Street Board School	—	Carlton Hill 50°49′33″N 0°07′59″W / 50.8257°N 0.1330°W	1874	—	Built to Thomas Simpson's design a year after the neighbouring Richmond Street school, it was treated as part of the same complex: the two parts were for girls and boys respectively, and playgrounds separated them.

Freshfield Place Board School	Queen's Park Primary School (former Board School), Freshfield Place, Brighton (January 2014) (1).JPG	Queen's Park 50°49′22″N 0°07′35″W / 50.8228°N 0.1263°W	1880	—	The school continues in use as Queen's Park Primary School and has about 400 pupils between the ages of 3 and 11.

Preston Road Board School	Former Preston Road Board School Preston Road, Brighton (December 2013).JPG	Preston Park 50°50′08″N 0°08′32″W / 50.8355°N 0.1423°W	1880	—	Simpson built this "excellent" school on a site between the London Road viaduct and the bottom of Preston Park. It continued in use as a junior school until 1937; it later served secondary-age pupils as the Preston Technical Institute and subsequently became the Preston Road Campus of City College Brighton & Hove, specialising in the teaching of plumbing.

Finsbury Road Board School	Hanover Lofts (former Finsbury Road Board School), Finsbury Road, Hanover, Brighton (January 2014) (3).JPG	Hanover 50°49′41″N 0°07′37″W / 50.8281°N 0.1269°W	1881	II	The school was bought by Brighton Polytechnic in 1956. Listed in 1999 in response to threatened demolition, it was converted in 2003 to flats called Hanover Lofts.

Circus Street School	Circus Street Annexe of University of Brighton (From East) (October 2011).JPG	Carlton Hill 50°49′29″N 0°08′05″W / 50.8247°N 0.1348°W	1883	—	The Board took over an existing school on this street in 1870, but Thomas Simpson's yellow-brick building replaced it in 1883.

Connaught Road School	Connaught Centre, Connaught Road, Hove (NHLE Code 1393480) (September 2012).JPG	Hove 50°49′46″N 0°10′37″W / 50.8295°N 0.1769°W	1884	II	Simpson's plans for this school were dated July 1882, but John T. Chappell built it in 1884.

Ditchling Road Board School	Downs Junior School, Rugby Road, Brighton (December 2013) (1).JPG	Round Hill 50°50′21″N 0°08′03″W / 50.8392°N 0.1343°W	1890	II	Like the Finsbury Road school, this brown-brick building has separate wings for infants and juniors, of one and two storeys respectively.

Elm Grove School	-	Elm Grove 50°49′54″N 0°07′24″W / 50.8318°N 0.1232°W	1893	—	The road dates from 1852, and the densely populated residential area to which it gave its name developed between 1860 and 1880.

Stanford Road Board School	Stanford Road School (former Board School), Prestonville, Brighton (September 2010).JPG	Prestonville 50°50′09″N 0°08′51″W / 50.8358°N 0.1475°W	1893	II	Now a primary school serving the Prestonville suburb, the complex four-part building "retains its original plan and detailed features" inside and has many distinctive features on the exterior: a three-storey clock tower, decorative mouldings and pediments, a gabled timber belfry, gables in various shapes, pilasters and balustrades.

St Luke's Board School	St Luke's School (former Board School), St Luke's Terrace, Brighton (July 2010) (2).JPG	Queen's Park 50°49′38″N 0°07′17″W / 50.8271°N 0.1214°W	1903	II	"The most prominent building" in the Queen's Park area is the final school the Simpsons designed together. The "variety of materials and ornamental devices" in the Arts and Crafts-style composition include red and brown brickwork, terracotta, stone dressings, tiles, wood and lead; and aediculae, stair turrets, arched windows with moulded swags in their spandrels, large and small gables, bell-cots and the Brighton Borough coat of arms.

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The Preston Board School is one of the former board schools in Brighton and Hove.

final_sentence: The Preston Board School is one of the former board schools in Brighton and Hove.