I notice in post #4 that Phil, mentioned several schools had frontages onto Stratford Road so I've extracted out all those from the British History online site which refer to Stratford Road locations. I've included Ladypool Road School in this too, mainly because it was mentioned in an earlier post as having been formerly Stratford Rd School. I'm unsure whether this school actually had a frontage onto Stratford Road. Here they are:
1.CHRIST CHURCH SPARKBROOK C. OF E. PRIMARY SCHOOL, Stratford Road; later Claremont Road. Opened 1867 in a private house. Transferred 1870 to a borrowed saw-mill. In 2 depts.: Mixed Infants Fees 2d.–3d.(22) Transferred 1871 or 1872 (21) to new building, accom. 565.(29) Received annual grant from 1880. Altered 1894.(21) Fees retained until 1903.(1) B and G depts. united 1905. Bd. of Ed. demanded substantial improvements in buildings 1912. Improvements made 1915. Became a controlled school 1949.(21 Reorganised 1948–9 for Junior and Infant only. Accom. 1955: 9 classrooms, hall. Transferred 1958 to Claremont Rd. Accom. 1961: 7 classrooms, hall.(28)
2. SPARK HILL CHURCH SCHOOL, Stratford Road. See St. John's (Sparkhill) C. of E. Primary Sch.
3. STRATFORD ROAD COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, Sparkbrook.(27) Stratford Rd. Bd. School opened 1885 by Birm. Sch. Board.(22) Accom. 981 Mixed Infants (1) Fees 1d.–3d.(22) Standard VII class for G opened 1886. Enlarged 1893, 1898. Reorganised 1936 for Junior and Infant .(21) Accom. 1961: 13 classrooms, 2 halls.(28
4. ST. JOHN'S (SPARKHILL) C. OF E. PRIMARY Stratford Road.(27) Sparkhill Church Sch. opened 1856 or 1857, enlarged 1860. In 1865 there were 2 schoolrooms (Mixed infants), with 1 mistress. Fees 2d.–4d.(22) Received annual grants from 1866. New G and I dept. apparently built 1884 consisting of 2 schoolrooms and 2 classrooms: accom. now 515. New Infants dept. built 1892, accom. 133, and former I premises used for B and G. Enlarged 1901. Bd. of Ed. demanded minor improvements in premises 1912. Reorganised for Junior and Infant only 1947.(21) Became an aided school.1951. Accom. 1961: 8 classrooms, hall.(28)
5. LADYPOOL ROAD C. OF E. SCHOOL. Sparkbrook National Sch. opened 1857 (22) in new buildings, with teacher's house, accom. 318,(21) erected with state aid.(1) Comprised schoolroom with a curtain between the B and G depts., and a classroom. Fees 3d.–4d.(22) Sometimes called St. Paul's School. By 1899 in 2 depts :Mixed Infants (1) Name changed 1905 to Ladypool Rd. C. of E. School. Bd. of Ed. considered premises inadequate 1912. Alterations made 1915. Reorganised1933 for 192 Junior Infant.(21) Closed 1938.(1) Building used from 1952 as annexe to Dennis Rd. Cty. Primary School (21)
6. COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, STRATFORD ROAD, Sparkhill. Started 1921 by Birm. C.B.C. as a Mixed school. Established 1929 in converted premises of Sparkhill Institute. Depts. included bk.-keeping, commercial arithmetic, commercial geography. and economic. history, dom. training, langs., mech. drawing, science, shorthand and typing, theory and practice of commerce (ex inf. M. of Ed.). N.o.b. 1961: 350.(28
7. KING EDWARD'S CAMP HILL GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR BOYS, New Street (1883); Stratford Road (1883–1956); Vicarage Road, King's Heath (1956) Opened 1883 in New St., partly replacing Lower Middle School in Meriden St. Nearly half original pupils came from Middle Sch. in New St. (see p. 554). Moved same yr. to new buildings in Stratford Rd. Enlarged 1890, 1910, 1929. In 1952 'grossly overcrowded' and given priority in governors' plans for reaccom. (T. W. Hutton, King Edw.'s Sch., Birm., 1552–1952, 193). Moved to new premises in Vicarage Rd. 1956.(28) 340 B c. 1908 (V.C.H. Warws. ii. 355), c.
500 1952 (Hutton, King Edw.'s Sch. 193). N.o.b. 1961: 600. (28)
8. KING EDWARD'S CAMP HILL GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, Stratford Road (1881–1958); Vicarage Road, King's Heath (1958). Started in room built over B Lower Middle Sch. in Meriden St. (see p. 554). Temporarily housed at Camp Hill House, Stratford Rd., 1881 and later at The Poplars, Stratford Rd. (accom. for c. 150), until permanent buildings opened 1893 accom. 300. Some pupils transferred here from Bath Row Sch. when that closed 1915 (see below). 'Uncomfortably overcrowded' by 1952 (Hutton, King Edw.'s Sch. 203). Moved to new premises in Vicarage Rd. 1958.(28) 200 G 1903 (Hutton, K.E.'s Sch. 203), 219 c. 1908 (V.C.H. Warws. ii. 356), and over 400 by 1952 (Hutton, K.E.'s Sch. 203). N.o.b. 1961: 612.(28)