Between 1876 and 1895, the school came under the Ermington School Board. A £600 loan was granted for alterations and improvements.
Ivybridge School Board was formed in 1895 and in September of that year the school was transferred on condition that the new board accepted to take on the remaining part of the loan which amounted to £380. The School Management Committee included representatives from the village churches as well as prominent member of the community including the Postmaster, William Mackay and James Chamberlain who served as Chairman on the Urban District Council for a period of 3 years.
Alterations to the school occurred in 1898, a date recorded within the plaque on the front of the building. It is assumed the building work was conducted by local contractors Gilbert Sincock & Henry Blight. Two years later they were awarded the contract to build the boundary wall ‘topped with forest coping, set in cement of stones alternately 18 inches and 9 inches’ and erect two iron wicket gates. It has been documented that the average attendance at that time was 172 boys and girls and 120 infants. In 1907 the school was enlarged further to accommodate up to 370 children and 176 infants.
The school was split into the Infants, with a School Mistress in charge and other female, mostly uncertified staff, and the Mixed School, for children aged 7 to 14, with a School Master in charge, assisted mostly by men, who were certified teachers. James England Lake was schoolmaster from 1873 until 1904, a total of 31 years.
By 1914, the attendance at the school averaged 224 children and 95 infants. Mr Fred Luxton was headmaster of the school from 1923 a position he held up to his untimely time death in 1935 following an operation in hospital. He was a valued member of the community of Ivybridge, serving as secretary of Ivybridge Bowling Club and a member of Erme Lodge of Freemasons. He had also been elected on the Ivybridge Parish Council which had superseded the Urban Council.
By the 1940s, the school was known as the Ivybridge Council School. It played host to a number of evacuees from Acton, London. The White House (in Erme Road) also acted as a school room for some of the evacuees. During the 1960s the Headmaster was Mr Christie who remained there until his retirement in March 1972.
With the population of Ivybridge growing, the village school became increasingly overcrowded and new mobile classrooms were introduced on the playground. In the education finance plan for 1971/2, funds were made available for a new school to be built at the western end of Ivybridge where new houses had been built after the war.
The Council School then became Station Road Infants School, with the Juniors accommodated at the newly built Manor Junior School.
In 1991, with primary school reorganisation, it became Erme Primary School.