 
Schools
The British Boys School built in 1838 in Northfields Road is now
residential. The National School for girls built 1840 in Church
Street is now used by the Acorn School.
Nailsworth Primary School is situated at the top of Forest
Green accommodating 200 pupils.
There are two Nurseries; the Phoenix Playgroup is next to the
school and the Town Hall Nursery is in Old Bristol Road.
Saint Dominic’s Catholic Primary School is in Woodchester.
There are two independent schools; the
Acorn School [Rudolf
Steiner] taking 120 pupils from age four to eighteen.
Beaudesert
School situated at the top of The ‘W’ has 300 pupils aged from
four to eleven years.
Ruskin Mill College
and Craft Workshops are in Millbottom Old
Bristol Road. Here young people benefit from the varied practical
and creative approach to education, working in the gardens,
woodland, farm and fishery, which they help to create. Drama, arts,
craft and pottery flourish under the Rudolf Steiner and John Ruskin
influence. Students stay with local families. Sometimes students
travel abroad or to the second centre at the old Royal Doulton
Glassworks in Stourbridge or The Freeman College in Sheffield.
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