The History of the Raglan Junior School
Pupils from the 1958/59 school year playing recorders.
The Raglan Junior School has been serving the community of Enfield since its opening in 1928. We’ve gathered together some interesting documents and photos charting the School’s history:
The Raglan School, the first to be founded by Edmonton’s education committee, opened in Bush Hill Park in 1928. Infants were admitted in 1929 and a separate infants’ school was built in 1934. Extensions were later made to both junior and infant schools, where the total attendance was 571 in 1932.
The senior department became a mixed secondary modern after the 1944 Education Act. In 1960 this moved to Rowantree School as the school reverted back to being a primary. (For information on Rowantree School see Edmonton County Old Scholars’ Association ECSOSA Website)
In 1973 there were 695 juniors and 485 infants on the roll. Today, the Infant School Infant School Website (360 on roll year R, 1, and 2) and Junior School (480 on roll year 3,4,5 and 6) are two separate establishments working in close partnership. The Infant School also has a nursery school (60 on roll).
This link British History Site gives an authoritative account of the history of Education in this part of, what was, Middlesex.
Documents from the Archive
A collection of documents written by former teachers and parents.
Raglan Pupils and Teachers Through the Years
A fascinating set of old photographs of past teachers and pupils.
School Sports Day Programme, 1945
Scanned pages from our 1945 Sports Day programme.
We will continue to add more material as we find it! If you have old photos or historical documents we would be glad to make copies for the website and return the originals to you or store them with our archive materials.