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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
Westfield Academy (formerly Westfield Community Technology College) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in the Holywell Estate in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. [2]
A new Sixth Form block, the Aquinas Centre, was opened in September 2008. [citation needed] On 29 September 2009, the school chapel reopened after a £200,000 refurbishment. [4] In March 2010, the St Bernadette Sports Hall was opened. The additional funding that came with this accolade was primarily used to construct the St Mary's wing.
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).
Loreto Grammar School is located in Trafford, England.Pupils must sit an entrance exam to enter, and fulfil several other entry criteria. It is part of the worldwide Loreto community, and the Altrincham school was founded by the Sisters of Loreto in 1909.
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.
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 .