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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
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.
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 rejoined the joint sixth form in 2016. Admission to the lower school is through the eleven-plus examination (for Year 7) or the cognitive ability test (for Years 8 to 11); entry to the Sixth Form is not based on testing, though there are minimum qualification requirements. There were 763 pupils on roll in 2024.
Watford Grammar School for Girls (commonly abbreviated WGGS) is an academy for girls in Watford in Hertfordshire, UK. Despite its name, it is only a partially selective school, with 25% of entrants admitted on academic ability and 10% on musical aptitude. [1] Its GCSE results were the highest achieved by non-grammar state schools in England in ...
Verulam School is an 11–18 boys state–funded secondary school with academy status in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, founded in 1938 as St Albans Boys' Modern School. [ 3 ] The name was changed in the 1940s to St Albans Grammar School for Boys and in 1975 to Verulam School, based on the Roman name for St Albans (Verulamium).
The school descends from a technical school in Watford, while the site it now occupies was originally a private junior boarding school.. Watford was a local pioneer in technical education, restructuring its School of Art, Science and Commerce in 1922, and establishing a Junior Technical School in the old public library building on Queen's Road in 1929.