Abberley Hall School away as Clent hill, and which was the setting for the children's book by Gene Kemp, "The Clock Tower Ghost". Pupils follow a curriculum that prepares them for entrance into public schools (independent schools), taking Common Entrance, Winchester Entrance or Scholarship exams. Class sizes are small, averaging 11 pupils. Most subjects have their own dedicated classrooms and there are two science laboratories and specialist facilities for computing, DT, music and PE. The majority of pupils continue their education at Malvern College, Shrewsbury School, Kings Worcester, Cheltenham College, Rugby School and Malvern St James. The school also provides for individual pupils
Sutton Forest Public School increased to 72, did the wardens contact the Council of Education to request a new space. The initial offering, into which the school relocated the following year, proved unsatisfactory, and in 1871 the school moved to a new building. The 30 foot by 20 foot school was, according to the inspector, "a commodious and airy weatherboard structure very fairly fitted up but there are no appointments in the playground". The new building would soon be replaced when in December 1879 a stone school building intended to hold 88 pupils was completed on a lot of over four acres on the