EDUCATION Provision for education was made when the original survey of the Island was done in 1765; on each 20,000 acre township 30 acres were set aside for a school and school teacher, less than the 100 acres reserved for church and glebe, but adequate. However, it was some years before Stanhope got a school. To consider the Island as a whole, the Education Act of 1825 provided for the payment of small grants of public money to help districts erect a school house and pay the salary of a teacher; to provide education for all children throughout the Island. An act was passed in 1829, establishing a standard for the qualifications of teachers. The Board of Education was established in 1830, its main duty being the licensing of teachers according to three categories. The lowest class received five pounds yearly from the government and twenty pounds from parents; and the highest class got seventy pounds from the government and thirty pounds from parents. Inspection of schools began in 1837 with the appointment of an official School Visitor, who had to inspect the whole Island. A five man board of trustees was responsible for each school. By 1838 there were two schools in Lot 34, at St. Peter 's Road and at Little York ; in 1841 Covehead School is mentioned for the first time: Mr. E. J. MacCormack is the teacher of 41 students ... there is a need for books and repair to the school house. By 1850 there was a school at (teacher Patrick McQuaid ) as well as the one at Covehead (teacher George Douglas ). According to oral tradition, the school located in Covehead (across the road from where the Stanhope- Hall now stands) was moved to Stanhope in 1850-51. In the School Visitor's annual report dated April, 1850 he states that the Covehead School taught by George Douglas was temporarily closed on his visits. ... in July and 93