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20th century & onwards - Burley District Schools
(19th century - Victorian Schools)
1902 - 1903 Private boarding school for boys. The Mount at Stead. Headmaster Dr J. A. Etches.

​1905 - 2005 Clevedon House Preparatory School, The Mount, Stead. First headmaster ​Ernest W. Stokoe MA

1905 - 1950 Wesleyan (Methodist) Sunday & Day School, Main Street. Renamed Burley Main Street Provided School.

1905 - 1922 The Burley Township School, Hill Top off Main Street. Renamed Burley Infants Provided School.
​Both non-denominational.

1914 - ???? Primitive Methodist School, Sun Lane. Attached to rear of Primitive Methodist Chapel, Victoria Road.

1930s Howdean Private School - initially at the Township School, then at Dial House, Main Street.
Miss Muriel Smith of Otley, x20 infant & junior aged children.​

c1931 - 1963 Littleburn Home School, an independent primary school. It was situated at the end of Menston Old Lane & Endor Crescent. ​Montessori and P.N.E.U. Teaching for boys and girls age 3 to 10 Years.

1935 Burley Preparatory School, location not currently known. Possibly an alternative name for Howdean Private School or Littleburn Home School (see above). Boys & girls.

1940/1941 - 1971 St Philips School, Burley House, Main Street. Independent co-educational day & boarding.
Relocated from Scalby, near Scarborough. Initial evacuation in 1940 to "Brookside" house, Burley in Wharfedale.

1942 - 1954 Burley Day Centre & Nursery, Grange Road. Re-opened as a Child Welfare Clinic in 1955 that included nursery provision.

1950 - 1972 Burley National School becomes Burley Junior & Infants Church of England (CofE) School. Locally the school was known as Burley CofE Primary, Aireville Terrace. Head Teachers Albert Simmons (1950-1957); Frank Newbould (1957-1972).
The school was only nominally CofE, the curriculum for religious education was changed to allow all denominations to attend.​
​All children over the age of 11 moved to Ben Rhydding / Ilkley Secondary Modern School or Ilkley Grammar School or Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley.

1972 - 1999 Burley CofE First School, Aireville Terrace. Headmaster Frank Newbould (1972-73). Children aged 5 to 9 years.

1972 - 1973 Burley Middle School shared Aireville First School premises until their Langford Lane site opened in 1973.

1973 - 1999 Burley Middle School, Langford Lane. Headmaster Mr Leslie Hall.

1974? - 2006 The Grange Adult Education Centre, Main Street.

1976 - 1999 Burley & Woodhead Church of England First School, Sandholme Drive. First Head Anne Bell - 1976-1988
​Nominally CofE but open to all denominations.

1982​ to present Burley Nursery School, The Manse, 48 Station Road.

1993​ to present Esscroft Nursery, Ilkley Road.

????​ to present Cliffe House Day Nursery, Back Lane.

1997​ to present Jolly Tots Nursery, Queens Hall, Main Street.

1999 to present Burley Oaks Primary School, Langford Lane.

1999​ to present Burley & Woodhead Church of England Primary School, Sandholme Drive. Nominally CofE but open to all denominations.

2006 to present Ghyll Royd School & Pre-school, Greystone Manor, Ilkley Road.