Education
There are two state lower Schools in Harpur - Edith Cavell Lower School located on Manton Lane, and Livingstone Lower School situated on Clapham Road. There are no middle or upper schools in Harpur. Children in the area are in the catchment for Beauchamp Middle School in Brickhill and Biddenham Upper School in Biddenham.
There are three independent schools in Harpur - Polam Oaks School is located on Lansdowne Road, and Rushmoor School is situated on Shakespeare Road. For older children, Bedford Modern School is located on Manton Lane. Stella Mann College is a private performing arts college, located on Linden Road. The college attracts students from all over the UK and abroad, as well as locally.
Bedford High School closed over the summer of 2012. Most of the school site has been leased by Bedford College, who use it as a campus for The Bedford Sixth Form (Bedford Colleges branding of its sixth form provision), as well as most of its other class-room based activities and higher education courses.
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