sentences:  Around 1970 the school became one of the first public schools to admit girls and it prospered into the 1980s.However, in the 1990s it went into a decline, with the number of pupils decreasing significantly, from almost 300 to fewer than half that number.One reason for this may have been the school's remote location, at a time when parents expected to see a lot more of their children than had been traditional in the old public school era.