The Old Ride School
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postedby ben johnson. (living there since 2000)frankleigh house was originally built in 1848 it was then changed to theThe Old Ride School (previously called The Old Ride Preparatory School) was an independent school, founded by its first headmaster, the Reverend Toby Flynn, at Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, between Buckingham and what is now Milton Keynes, which was later at Bradford on Avon.
In 1959, the school's buildings at Little Horwood were needed by British Railways and the school moved to Kingwell Court (now called Frankleigh House), a substantial seventeenth century country house on the northern outskirts of Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. The new location for the school was already the home of a separate boys' preparatory school and the two schools merged. Initially, the Old Ride schoolboys wore red school caps while the Kingwell Court boys kept their purple caps.
The Rev. Toby Flynn was succeeded as headmaster by his son, Mark Flynn, and girls were admitted to the school in 1982. In the late 1980s the school began to specialize in disadvantaged and problem children.
The school closed in 1990 when attendance figures dropped dramatically, following adverse inspection reports.
[edit] Wiltshire Schools
Comprehensive Schools: Sheldon school | St John's School and Community College
Grammar Schools: South Wilts Grammar School for Girls | Bishop Wordsworth's School
Former Schools: The Old Ride School | Hawtreys
Independent Schools: Avondale School | Kingwell Court Preparatory School | Grittleton House School | La Retraite Swan School | Prior Park Preparatory School
Public Schools: Marlborough College | Dauntsey's School
