educational provision in the village includes the specialist education needs school potterspury lodge school, which helps children with learning difficulties, and john hellins primary school. the latter has about 115 children, aged 4–11. most leavers go on to elizabeth woodville school, formerly kingsbrook school, in deanshanger, as their secondary school. john hellins was a mathematician and astronomer who, as parish priest at potterspury, founded and taught in the village school.