Education
The town has a primary and a secondary school. Castle Cary Community Primary School dates from 1840, whereas Ansford School built in 1940 with additional rooms for science, technology, mathematics and modern languages being added in the 1970s. A new £1.7 million Sports Centre was completed in 2005.
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