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(centre number '''57037''') is a
Grammar School for
Boy s located in
Stroud ,
Gloucestershire in
England , next to its sister school,
Stroud High School . It is on the Cainscross Road, the main route out of Stroud.
The school won the Schools Achievement Award for
2002 .
Notable alumni include the actor '').
Marling School was founded in
1887 by
Sir Samuel Marling , Sir Francis Hyett and Mr S S Dickinson. Its roots, however, lie in the inherited
Endowment s of the
Red Coat School which was founded in
1642 by Thomas Webb, the
St Chloe School founded at
Amberley by Nathaniel Cambridge in
1699 , and the educational charities established in the
17th and
18th centuries by William Johns and Robert Aldridge. Both the long and short corridors were
World War 2 army
Hospital s and as such are listed buildings.
Marling School is currently undergoing extensive modernising and building work. The new
Sixth Form block is now operational and servicing the students of the combined
Downfield Sixth Form centre. Also, it has a new Design and Technology block following a fire that destroyed the former "temporary" block in
2002 . The cause of this fire is still unknown. The block incorporates teaching rooms for
Food Technology , Graphical Products, Resistant materials and
Electronics . Other new facilities include the new
Music block, sports hall (otherwise affectionately known as the "Green Goddess" by staff and students) and
Library (which used to be the gym).
Other than this, the rest of the buildings are run down. The new music block has poor quality ceilings (which are falling down) and the English rooms tend to be very bodged. Arguably, the worst teaching room in the school is the
Religious Education room in which an
Ant s nest has appeared, the
Roof is leaking and there are holes in the walls. It was previously a portacabin, for part time use while some building were being repaired, however, it has become a permanent classroom. The plans for a new 20 class room, 2 story block however, may go some way to changing this.
There are also plans to sell the ''East Campus'' (Previously known as the Lower School and containing the English and Modern Foreign Language rooms) and move all of the students to the ''West Campus'' (Previously known as the Upper School). This is being met with some opposition by
Parent s,
Teacher s and
Student s.
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