1792
The rector of Greensted, the Revd. John Harris opened a Sunday school in Greensted. Only one child attended from the parish the remainder came from Chipping Ongar. When the Chipping Ongar Sunday school was started, the Greensted school was discontinue.
1807
There was no school in the parish.
1818
Population 147. A Sunday school supported by the rector and Craven Ord, Esq., containing 10 boys and 12 girls. The poor are without sufficient means of education.
Source: Digest of Parochial Returns. Select Committee on Education of the Poor, 1818
1833
Population 134. No School in the parish.
Source: House of Commons papers, Volume 41. Abstract of Education Returns 1833
1839
The rector, the Revd. Philip Ray began to collect subscriptions for a parish school.
1846/7
The school was being attended by some 34 children. The schoolmistress received a salary of £30 per annum. About this time a new building was erected, evidently by subscription on a site at Greensted Green, presented by the Revd. Philip Budworth, lord of the manor.
The Revd Ray exercised close supervision of the school. It provided 33 places ‘abundant accommodation’ for the small and declining population of Greensted.
1851
The schoolmistress was Rebecca French, aged 26 years.
Source: 1851 Census
1861 - 1871
Mr. St. George. A. Sargant and Mrs Phepe Sargant are master and mistress. They were living at the schoolhouse. In the 1871 Census he is described as a ‘Scripture Reader.’
Sources: 1861and 1871 Census and the Essex Almanack for 1865
1870
About 23 pupils attended the school.
Between 1878 and 1882 the school was closed and the children in the parish attended the schools at Chipping Ongar or Stanford Rivers.
Lord of the manor.
