William Forster’s 1870 Education Act opened up the possibility for locally elected School Boards to operate schools in the UK.
These new board schools could charge fees but they were also eligible for government grants and could also be paid for out of local government rates.
Board schools provided an education for the five to ten age group, and in some areas pioneered new educational ideas.
If you look around you may find a board school in your local area, although like this one in Chepstow you may find the building is no longer used for education.
normalguy
we are the ones who take them away from there 
Always connected along the History isn't it?!!!
my old primary school, Milk Street in Frome was such a school. Alas it is now, along with the street it stood in, just a memory, replaced with an estate