Primary schools in Dacorum

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This article on Primary schools in Dacorum gives brief information on primary schools in the area of Dacorum Borough Council in Hertfordshire, England, that cater for pupils up to the age of 11. Most schools are county maintained "junior mixed infant" (JMI). A small number are voluntary aided church schools or independent (fee-paying), these are indicated.

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[edit] Berkhamsted

As an exception within the district, in Berkhamsted there operates a three tier school system: first (ages 5 - 9), middle (9 - 13) and secondary.

[edit] Bridgewater

Although not strictly speaking a primary school, Bridgewater is a middle school that takes pupils from 9 to 13, thus overlapping the usual primary age range.

[edit] Greenway

A first school in the Shootersway district.

[edit] Potten End (Church of England)

This is a first school for children up to 9 years.

[edit] St Mary's (Church of England)

This first school was founded in 1864 as Church of England School in the Northchurch part of Berkhamsted. The original building with its Victorian stained glass window remains in use for communal purposes with modern classrooms added in the 1960s. The school field borders the Grand Union Canal and encloses a section of the River Bulbourne.

[edit] St Thomas More (Roman Catholic)

Situated in the Shootersway district, the school serves the parishes of Berkhamsted and Tring. It has just over 200 pupils and covers the full primary school age range.

[edit] Swing Gate

A first school.

[edit] Thomas Coram (Church of England)

Middle school.

[edit] Victoria (Church of England)

A first school.

[edit] Westfield

First school.


[edit] Hemel Hempstead

[edit] Abbot's Hill (independent)

This is an independent school that caters for girls up to GCSE age. There are around 480 pupils. The School was founded in 1912, and is situated in John Dickinson's house in 76 acres of parkland on the southern edge of Hemel Hempstead.

[edit] Aycliffe Drive

Situated in the Grovehill district in the north of Hemel Hempstead, with over 300 pupils.

[edit] Barncroft

[edit] Bellgate

Sited in the Highfield district.

[edit] Belswains

[edit] Boxmoor

[edit] Broadfield

There are separate schools for infants and for juniors. The schools are situated in Adeyfield.

[edit] Brockswood

Brockswood Primary School is at the northern edge of Hemel Hempstead, at Woodhall Farm.

In 2007, Brockswood was one of four primary schools in England that were implicated in malpractice in the National Curriculum assessment tests taken by 11-year-olds. As a result, it was stripped of results in English, maths and science. (ITN report)

[edit] Chambersbury

The school is located off Hill Common and also borders on Chambersbury Lane. The larger site includes Longdean School and Hobbs Hill JMI, but fencing has been installed to define each school's site and to deter use as a throughway. It serves part of the Bennetts End district of Hemel Hempstead.

[edit] Chaulden

There are separate schools for infants and for juniors. The schools are situated in the Chaulden district in the north west of the town.

[edit] Eastbrook

Subject to merger proposals. Renamed Haywood Grove and redesignated (see below).

[edit] Gade Valley

The present school came into existence in 1982 when the previously separate Infant Junior schools merged. The school is sited on the boundary of the Gadebridge and Hammerfield districts in the north of the town.

[edit] George Street

This school is the oldest school in Hemel Hempstead, having opened in November 1855. The school roll is about 240 children.

[edit] Hammond

Situated on the northern edge of the Highfield district, adjacent to Grovehill.

[edit] Haywood Grove

Haywood Grove is a special school for primary aged pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.

[edit] Heath Lane

Heath Lane is a nursery school for children aged 3 - 5 years old.

[edit] Hobletts Manor

There are separate schools for infants and for juniors. The schools are situated in Adeyfield.

[edit] Holtsmere End

There are separate schools for infants and for juniors. The schools are situated in Woodhall Farm.

[edit] Hobbs Hill Wood

This school was completed in 1953 and was named after the woods that pre-dated the New Town. It serves North End Farm and parts of Bennetts End and Leverstock Green.

[edit] Jupiter Drive

The school is in Highfield.

[edit] Leverstock Green (Church of England)

[edit] Lime Walk

Situated in Bennetts End.

[edit] Lockers Park (independent)

Situated between Hammerfield and the town centre, this day and boarding school accommodates boys up to age 13. It was founded in 1874 by Henry Montagu Draper to prepare boys for Rugby School, and is thus one of the earliest purpose-built preparatory schools in England.

[edit] Martindale

Sited in the Gadebridge district.

[edit] Micklem

Sited in the Warners End district.

[edit] Nash Mills (Church of England)

Situated on Belswains Lane in Nash Mills, on the southern edge of Hemel Hempstead, the school occupies a modern site adjacent to the earlier flint built buildings. The school was founded by John Dickinson, who owned the local paper mills), in 1847. Little is known about the school's early years; the early records may have been destroyed when the mill’s offices were bombed during World War II. The earliest written record of the School is dated 1871.

[edit] Pixies Hill Primary

Located in the Chaulden district.

[edit] Reddings

Located in Bennetts End.

[edit] Rossgate

Located at Galley Hill, Hemel Hempstead.

[edit] St Albert the Great (Roman Catholic)

Sited in Acorn Road, Hemel Hempstead. In common with other Catholic primary schools in the area, it acts as a feeder school to John F Kennedy Catholic secondary school.

[edit] St Cuthbert Mayne (Roman Catholic)

St Cuthbert Mayne RC School is situated in the Gadebridge district of Hemel Hempstead.

[edit] St Rose's (Roman Catholic)

Situated in Boxmoor.

[edit] South Hill

The school is located just west of the town centre, near to Hemel Hempstead School.

[edit] Tudor

The school is in central Hemel Hempstead, close to Jarman's Park.

[edit] Two Waters

The school serves the Apsley district of Hemel Hempstead and is sited on the edge of the Manor Estate, on the southern edge of the town, where it was relocated in June 1976. The school was founded by Non-conformists in the mid-19th century and was subsequently moved to the northern edge of Apsley - Two Waters - in March 1869. The local School Board assumed responsibility in 1975 and the school expanded into new buildings in 1878. A new school was built in 1913.

In World War II, evacuees from the cities increased the school roll and a double shift system was introduced to manage the numbers in the existing space. In 1941, Two Waters School absorbed the pupils of Wordsworth Junior Infants School from London.

[edit] Woodfield

Woodfield is a school for children with severe learning difficulties. It is sited in Leverstock Green and caters for all ages, including the primary age range.


[edit] Tring

[edit] Arts Educational School (independent)

This is an independent day and boarding school at Tring Park. There are about 275 pupils aged 8 years and above. The school provides vocational training in dance, drama and musical theatre as well as a secondary level academic curriculum.

[edit] Bishop Wood (Church of England)

[edit] Dundale

[edit] Goldfield

[edit] Grove Road


[edit] Villages

[edit] Aldbury (Church of England)

[edit] Bovingdon

Bovingdon Primary School is located in the centre of the village on the High Street.

[edit] Flamstead

[edit] Gaddesden Row

Gaddesden Row Primary School was established in 1876 to meet obigations imposed on the community by the 1876 Education Act. Hertfordshire County Council acquired the property in 1957 and improved them, creating a modern two room school in unspoilt farmland. The only surviving part of the original school is now offices for the Headteacher and Secretary. In 2001 a new kitchen replaced the old one and a third classroom was added.

[edit] Great Gaddesden (Church of England)

Established in 1855.

[edit] Little Gaddesden (Church of England)

[edit] Long Marston (Church of England)

[edit] Markyate

[edit] Kings Langley

With around 480 pupils, this two form entry school is among the largest primary schools in the county. (It should not be confused with Kings Langley School, the local secondary school.)

[edit] Rudolf Steiner, Kings Langley (independent)

The Rudolf Steiner School is an independent school that caters for children up to age 19, including those of primary school age. It was opened in 1949 and it's one of the oldest Rudolf Steiner Schools in the UK.

[edit] St Bartholomews, Wigginton (Church of England)

The school, Located in Wigginton, was founded in 1854 by the local vicar, the Reverend Gaisford, to provide children within the parish with full time education. It was originally a plaiting school where children made straw plaits for the Luton hat industry. The present school building was dedicated on 15th March 1969 by the Bishop of St Albans, the Right Reverend Michael Gresford-Jones.

[edit] St Paul's, Chipperfield (Church of England)

The school is centrally sited in the village, close to the church and village green. The school is modern, built 1973, and has an unusual circular plan.