Detention records describing Beatle John Lennon's schoolboy misdemeanours have fetched about $15,000 each in an online auction.

The two documents, from 1955-56, outline the wrongdoings of a 15-year-old Lennon during his time at Quarry Bank High School for Boys at Liverpool in north-west England.

Within the files, teachers describe Lennon as a "class-clown" and a "nuisance" who showed "just no interest whatsoever".

He was punished for "shoving" and "fighting" in class, as well as "sabotage".

On two occasions, the Beatle accumulated three detentions in the space of a single day.

The files relate to when Lennon was in Class 3B and Class 4C, from 19 May to 23 June 1955 and 25 November 1955 to 13 February 1956, respectively.

One year later in 1957, Lennon met Paul McCartney and they went on to form the Beatles. Their first hit was in late 1962, with the song Love Me Do.

The records were rescued by a teacher who had been asked to burn the contents of a storage room at the school in the 1970s.

The BBC reports that the teacher tore the sheets from a book to retain as a keepsake, after he noticed the name "Lennon" atop some of the pages.

The teacher gave away some sheets and others were destroyed, but these two pages have survived.

Lennon's close school friend Pete Shotton, who wrote a book about the star's life, authenticated the documents.

Each document sold for 8,437 pounds ($15,000) in the auction held by TracksAuction.com, a firm based in north-west England.

Beatle's Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon arrive at London Airport in 1964. ( Getty Images )

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