The Free School was built in 1720 at a cost of £30 left by Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham. Lord Crewe's charities also endowed the school with £20 a year for maintainance. The school was enlarged c.1843 at a cost of £70 which was paid jointly by the trustees and the rector. However, by 1863 the endowment was no longer sufficient to support a school master and so children from Newbold Verdon were sent to Kirby Mallory to school. In 1876, a new Mixed school was built and a schoolhouse at a cost of £1500. The school was extended in 1884 to take 170 children although the average attendance was about 150. The longest serving master at the school was Thomas Carter who took over c.1886 and remained there until about the beginning of the first World War. The school mistress for many years, from 1877 to 1898, was Miss Maria Gilliver who was also the sub-post mistress. The school became known as the National School and later as the Public Elementary School.

An image of the school taken about 1906

The council school was built in 1910 and designed to hold 140 children. This building housed the infants and together the schools provided for the education of the children of Newbold Verdon.

A view of the school taken in 2005.