ABSTRACT
The National School was extended in 1900 when the numbers on roll in the Mixed Department stood at 583 : two extra classrooms were added, a third enlarged, new cloakroom provision made and improved lighting and ventilation installed throughout the school. The obvious place to provide additional buildings was the two-and-a-half acre site of Tinsley Schooldays at Carbrook National and Board Schools, 1896–1914 Park Road Board School and here, between 1902 and 1903, a building was constructed to take 750 children in a Senior Mixed Department. Carbrook Council Schools maintained their 'excellent' classification – the boys 'being taught with much success' and the girls 'being taught with intelligence and effect'. The Girls' Department was singled out as being 'a remarkably good girls' school'. As far as the voluntary schools were concerned, by 1903 Carbrook Church of England School was being described as 'one of the best seen so far by the representatives of the Education Committee'.
