Possible Clues:

• Team can't reach (anag) – school neighbourhood
• Collects water for the fish workers on square patch
• Places served by local institution
• Region from which people are allocated to a school, hospital etc
• The source of the river might be the place that's caught
• Lash given by teacher, man upsetting community of pupils
• Man and teacher act, totally reforming school district
• Soldiers and sailor under strain, each seeing where river water comes from
• Zone from which eg school children might come
• Hear chaps are among volunteers in school locality