One of the earliest schools in the parish was the Close Wesleyan Day School, a Dame school opened around 1840 [REF].
Radcliffe County Secondary School was founded in 1933[REF] on the former Peel Park Ground near School Street, but Radcliffe's first secondary school (apart from an endowed grammar school in nearby Stand) was held at the New Jerusalem schoolroom from the early 1860s [REF].