Ore (Village) Schools

<span class="wrapper"><p>For records of Ore Village School Foundation, 1903-1998, see PAR 435/43/1-2; for minutes of the Hastings United District School Board, 1897-1903 see R/E 4/1/31-33; for minutes of the governing body, 1897-1939 see E/MA/128/1-5; for title deeds, 1859-1906 see R/C 4/210; for plans, 1885-1913 see R/E 4/1/135-138, 159, 162-164 and for 1906 see R/E 4/24/4; for reports on religious instruction, 1877-1898 see R/E 4/1/178; for file concerning the purchase of the school, 1903-1917 see R/E 2/25/3; for papers concerning the school, 1898-1954 see ACC 4886/24</p> <p>For records of Hastings Red Lake County Primary School (formerly Ore Village Infants' School), 1896-1987 see E/SC/244</p></span>

A mixed National School was built here in 1851 according to local directories. There were new buildings in 1886, when separate boys' and girls' departments were created. In 1897 the Hastings United District School Board took over the running of the school and in 1906 the trustees conveyed the site in Red Lake Road to Hastings County Borough Council. The sale price of £1,000 was used to award exhibitions to children whose parents were resident in the parish of Ore; the residue was used in the provision of religious education. The boys' section was closed in December 1925. The girls' section subsequently became a Senior Girls' School, then a Secondary Modern School and finally a Community Centre