From The Warminster Official Guide And Souvenir 1928 (penned by Victor Strode Manley):
Educational Advantages
As a convenient centre for a wide district, Warminster has always been a scholastic stronghold. Its reputation began from its association with the boyhood of Dr. Arnold, greatest of England’s schoolmasters, who began as a scholar at Lord Weymouth’s School, to which he owed his early inspirations, always in after life looking back on it with a marked tenderness.
The School was founded and endowed by the First Viscount Weymouth in 1704, the Patron still being the Most Hon. the Marquis of Bath, K. G. It is a residential and day school for boys. Built of stone in the late Renaissance style, with mullioned windows and dormered roof, it is one of the best specimens of this beautiful type, adorned with a large oaken door brought from Longleat when Bishop Ken was living in retirement there with his old schoolfellow. Its curriculum is framed to prepare the scholars for the Civil and Military Services, the Professions and Mercantile pursuits. Some of the buildings which have been added at various times are a new block of class rooms, science laboratory, carpenter’s shop, gymnasium and rifle range for the Cadet Company, and an open-air swimming bath. The school garden supplies the tables with fresh vegetables. The playing fields are extensive and sports thoroughly organised. The reputation for sports is as great as the successes maintained in the class-rooms.
St. Monica’s School is a private seminary for girls.
Private preparatory schools are well represented as well as tutors for the arts.
The Board of Education direct the County School, and five Elementary Schools.