 The town has several primary schools – Brownlow, Grove, St Francis RC, St Mary's C of E, Sherard and Swallowdale – while the Birchwood Special School caters for young people of primary and secondary-school age.Melton's largest school used to be the King Edward VII, which at one time had some 2,000 pupils aged between 11 and 19.It was founded as a grammar school in 1910, became comprehensive in the late 1960s, and closed recently after reaching its centenary.