page_title: St Andrew's Church of England High School
section_title: Early Years
hierarchical_section_title: St Andrew's Church of England High School / History / Early Years
caption_attribution_description: English: St Andrew's, Southbridge Road, Croydon. St Andrews is a Grade II listed church. St Andrews, Croydon official website Croydon, St Andrew at the Anglican Diocese of Southwark Church Of St Andrew at English Heritage
context_page_description: St Andrew's C of H High School is an Anglican voluntary aided school in Central Croydon, Greater London. The school is part of the educational provision of the Diocese of Southwark and the London Borough of Croydon.
context_section_description: The girls’ and infants’ school got off to a very successful start. It was led by a twenty-one year old called Fanny Thornton who, although young, would have already completed a five-year apprenticeship as a pupil monitor before completing two years' training to qualify her to teach. She was assisted by two of her younger sisters. The girls’ and infants’ school opened with 31 pupils but, within four months, numbers had risen to 80. Because schooling for girls was not compulsory until after 1871, there were probably fewer schools for girls in Croydon. At St Andrew's, there were four classes all taught in one room at the same time.
  The boys’ school opened with 23 pupils and numbers were never as high as in the girls’ school. This was probably due to the fact that there were more schools for boys in Croydon competing with St Andrew's. Just next door but one, in Church Street, was the Whitgift Poor School which went on to become Trinity School. The head of St Andrew's boys’ school was also a twenty-one year old. His name was Frederic Le Huquet and he came from Guernsey. Croydon Old Town in those days was not a healthy place to live. It was damp in the valley and the housing was often squalid and insanitary with the poor drainage. Smallpox was a common disease amongst the pupils. Mr Le Huquet wrote in the school log-book in 1863 that he had a ’fear of contagion’. This proved sadly prophetic for within ten months of taking up his post as head master of the new St Andrew's school for boys, he died from smallpox.
caption: St Andrew's Church. The original rented school rooms were behind the building in the background
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