Education
Devizes has one comprehensive school, Devizes School, which has specialist Sports College status. It is situated in the grounds of the Southbroom House estate and the grade 2 listed house forms its administrative core.
The town's primary schools include Rowde, Nursteed, Southbroom, Wansdyke, St Peter's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic School.
Long Street has had a number of private schools, beginning in the 18th century and proliferating in the 19th. Brownston House, a Grade I listed building, was the home of Miss Bidwell's Ladies Boarding School from 1859 to 1901. A private Devizes Grammar School was established in Heathcote House in 1874 by the Reverend S.S. Pugh and carried on until 1919 by his twin sons.
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