acland burghley school
London
Acland Burghley School started life as Burghley Road School in 1884 with 118
girls and 127 boys. In the new century, the 1902 Education Act established a
system of publicly funded secondary education based on selection at 11 and in
1905, Burghley Senior Boys moved into a new school building in Fortess Road
named Acland School (Eleanor Palmer Primary School is now on this site).
Burghley Senior Girls meanwhile stayed at Burghley Road until 1931.
