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Robert Peel Lower School

Robert Peel Lower School August 2010
Robert Peel Lower School August 2010

In the 1970s Bedfordshire County Council introduced comprehensive education, doing away with the 11+ examination and grammar schools and introducing a tier of school between the old County Primary and County Secondary Schools. Thus Lower Schools now taught children aged 4 to 9, Middle Schools from 9 to 13 and Upper Schools from 13 onwards.

Robert Peel was a new lower school, built in Dapifer Drive. The school opened in 1972 and continues at the time of writing [2010].