Greenacres was an approved school for girls. A boarding school for the unruly, or those who couldn't cope with normal school life. There are quite some stories of the havoc they'd cause in Calne and many can remember having to avoid them, however when it came to behaviour in church, they seemed to be well behaved. This didn't stop Calne parents from threatening to send their kids there for bad behaviour though!
It opened c. 1940s operating until c. 1982 and one of the buildings in use was a house called The Grange, which once belonged to the Harris family and among other subjects taught animal husbandry. During the 1970s it became a therapeutic unit for both girls and boys, with Springfields House housing the girls with the house previously known as The Grange for the boys, at that point called Greenacres.
After a time laying unused, 1983 saw Springfields school open at the site, a residential school for maladjusted boys, at that time. See Springfield Drive.
