Classroom

The School itself has gone through three site changes in its long history from 1615 to the present day including a temporary stay in the Cambridge Technical College when the school was damaged by bombing. Until 1890, the school was on Free School Lane (behind Corpus Christi College) where the current Whipple Museum stands.

As the school expanded in numbers, so the need for a larger site was becoming more evident and so, a new building was commissioned for Gonville Place where the school then remained until 1960.

There was no real library, playing fields or dining hall for the pupils use as this was a distinctly urban school, on the busiest road junction in Cambridge. It is thanks to the ever-active Old Persean Society that School House and Hillel House were able to be founded on Glebe Road opposite the site of the current school on Hills Road which were originally sports fields leased to the Perse by Trinity College.