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The thirteen boys and two girls still at Mrs Fuller's Free School were placed in local elementary schools. [5] In 1881, a scheme was presented to the Charity Commissioners, combining Mrs Fuller's foundation with a portion of the Platt foundation to form the Watford Endowed Schools, which would educate up to 200 boys and 100 girls from age 7 to 16.
Verulam School (formerly St Albans Boys' Modern School and St Albans Grammar School for Boys) - Boys only for ages 11-16 and coed for sixth form; Watford Grammar School for Boys; Kent. Dartford Grammar School (coed for sixth-form, with pre-sixth-form grades reserved for boys) Dover Grammar School for Boys; The Howard School, Kent
Watford Central School was founded in 1912 in buildings in Derby Road vacated by Watford Grammar School for Boys when it moved to its present site in West Watford. In 1950, the central school became a new grammar school on the northwest side of Aldenham Road, Bushey , called Bushey Grammar School .
It became the first comprehensive in Watford in 1966. [6] Previously a community school administered by Hertfordshire County Council , in February 2008, the school was given permission to explore becoming an academy , sponsored by West Herts College and the University of Hertfordshire (later the Meller Educational Trust).
The Charity Commission, acting under the Endowed Schools Act 1869, forced a new constitution on the foundation, directing one third of the income to the almshouses and two-thirds to the school, which was by this time providing secondary education to 70 boys. Fees were to be introduced, with 40 foundation scholarships for boys from the parish of ...
In 2019 St George's was ranked third in examination results in the country for state schools and rivals some of the private schools. Its academic Sixth Form has the third highest progress score in the county, beating almost all local Independent Schools [17] (Including St Alban’s School and Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School).
The school continues to coordinate with Hertfordshire County Council for admissions. Westfield Academy provides leisure facilities to the public. The leisure facilities were opened in September 2004 and were originally run by Watford Borough Council. In August 2007, Fusion Lifestyle took over the management.
Sixth form itself isn't compulsory in England and Wales (although from 2013 onwards, people of sixth form age must remain in some form of education or training in England only; the school leaving age remains 16 in Wales); however, university entrance normally requires at least three A level qualifications and perhaps one AS level.