Education Today
Smallest school closes its doors
Published:  01 September, 2007

The smallest school in Britain is closing its doors for the last time. Cross Inn school, which opened near Aberystwyth in Ceredigion in 1855, now has just two pupils.

The running costs of £45,000 a year per child make the two room primary school one of the most expensive, eclipsing the fees of Eton and Harrow.

Ceredigion Council decided to close the school after a steep drop in the number of pupils and the rising costs of keeping it open.

The parents of the two remaining pupils fought a long campaign to save the school, stalling its closure by a year.

Nine-year-old Rebecca Smith and 11-year-old Lowri Reid said they would be sad to see the school close.







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