I am assuming that if he were at school that I will be able to find him but experience has shown how differently the name can be transcribed.
I am searching the northern area first and also around Sheffield as I know the Mastaglios had business interests there. I suspect that it will not be one of the major schools though.
There were smaller private schools. Some were in large(ish) houses in residential streets.
Some Catholic elementary schools had a Higher Grade or Upper school for children of better-off parents.
Here are a few examples of Catholic education mid-late 19thC Preston, Lancashire, when some of my Catholic families lived there.
A Catholic Upper School was opened in 1855 in the street where my middle-class ancestors lived. It was "intended to meet the wants of the upper and middle-classes of Catholics in Preston". ("The Preston Chronicle" Jan. 13th 1855.)
A Catholic Grammar School was opened in nearby Winckley Square in 1865 with 11 pupils. It was hoped that some pupils would go on to study for the priesthood.
A Higher Grade Boys' School at St. Ignatius School, run by the Xaverian Brothers order catered for the lower middle classes whose parents neither wanted nor could afford to send their sons to the Grammar School. St. Ignatius Higher Grade School offered a commercial education which would have been more practical use to the boys than the classical curriculum at the Grammar School.
Jesuits and Christian Brother were 2 other orders operating schools for boys in the town.
(Information about schools from "Through Twenty Preston Guilds")
Preston and neighbouring area had a high Catholic population.
If the boy was sent away from home for education, he may have lodged with a local family - leading to more chance of his surname having been mangled on a census return.
