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The Christian Brothers School was a school in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The school was a technical school in the 1930s and in 1950 became the Gibraltar Grammar School until comprehensive education was introduced in the 1970s. The building was then home to Sacred Heart Middle School but was no longer run by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. In July 2015, Sacred Heart Middle School became St Bernards Middle School and moved to a different location. The building was renovated and now houses Prior Park School, Gibraltar's first co-educational, Christian-Catholic Independent Secondary School. Prior Park School is the fourth school in the Prior Park family, the other three being located in Bath and Wiltshire, UK.
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- ↑ Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1969). Gibraltar. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 31. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ↑ Kramer, Dr. Johannes (1986). English and Spanish in Gibraltar. Buske Verlag. p. 32. ISBN 978-3-87118-815-2 . Retrieved 20 October 2013.
- ↑ Great Britain. Board of Education (1905). Special reports on educational subjects. H. M. Stationery Office. p. 462. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
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