Description:Harpfield Infants School was built in 1875.
Under the guidance of its first chairman, Sir Lovelace Stamer, Rector of Stoke-on-Trent, who was also chairman of the National Schools Board in Stoke, the Stoke-on-Trent School Board co-operated with the latter to provide new church schools and new board schools. The school board district covered a wide area, some of it outside the present city. It extended from Butterton near Whitmore to Stanley Pool near Endon station, the townships included being Seabridge, Clayton, Penkhull-cum-Boothen, Fenton Culvert, Fenton Vivian, Botteslow, Bucknall, and Bagnall. In 1871 the total number of children at school in the district was just over 3,600, most of them in National Schools which educated children of both churchmen and others. It was then estimated that 1,300 more places in schools were needed. The deficiency was met partly by the opening by the board of a number of temporary schools, some in nonconformist Sunday schools. By 1876 there were 6 schools under the Stoke School Board: Mount Tabor, Cross Street, HARPFIELD, Penkhull, Bagnall, and Clayton.
(Stoke Sch. Bd. Triennial Rep. 1876.
- from: 'The city of Stoke-on-Trent: Schools ', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 8 (1963), pp. 307-328. With acknowledgements to 'British History Online').