ABSTRACT
Village School was a small all-age primary school sited in a village in a rural area of the Midlands. It had only four classes, and in this was like 9 per cent of our survey schools. The children came mostly from fairly well-to-do families, judging by the fact that only 9 per cent (ten of 104) were eligible for free school dinners. The village had two distinct ends: with a mix of council housing and cheaper modern homes at one end; and more expensive, picturesque old village houses at the other.
