Primary schools in Dacorum

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.

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.

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.

* [http://www.bridgewater.herts.sch.uk/ Bridgewater school website]

Greenway

A first school in the Shootersway district.

* [http://www.greenway.herts.sch.uk/ Greenway school website]

Potten End (Church of England)

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

* [http://www.pottenend.herts.sch.uk/ Potten End school website]

t 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.

* [http://www.stmarys916.herts.sch.uk/ St Mary's school web site]

t 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.

* [http://www.stmore.herts.sch.uk/ St Thomas More school web-site]

wing Gate

A first school.

* [http://www.swinggate.herts.sch.uk/contactus.htm Swing Gate school web site]

Thomas Coram (Church of England)

Middle school.

* [http://www.thomascoram.herts.sch.uk/ Thomas Coram school web site]

Victoria (Church of England)

A first school.

* [http://www.victoria.herts.sch.uk/ Victoria school web site]

Westfield

First school.

* [http://www.westfieldfirst.herts.sch.uk/ Westfield school web site]

Hemel Hempstead

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.

* [http://www.abbotshill.herts.sch.uk/ Abbot's Hill school website]

Aycliffe Drive

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

* [http://www.aycliffedrive.herts.sch.uk/ Aycliffe Drive school web site]

Barncroft

* [http://www.barncroft.herts.sch.uk/ Barncroft school web site]

Bellgate

Sited in the Highfield district.

* [http://www.bellgate.herts.sch.uk/ Bellgate school web site]

Belswains

* [http://www.belswains.herts.sch.uk/ Belswains school web site]

Boxmoor

* [http://www.boxmoor.herts.sch.uk/ Boxmoor school web site]

Broadfield

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

* [http://www.broadfieldinfants.herts.sch.uk/ Broadfield infant school website]
* [http://www.broadfieldjunior.org/ Broadfield junior school website]

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. [http://itn.co.uk/news/372e4bbe44a08ce12a8af73c45d737d9.html (ITN report)]

* [http://www.brockswood.herts.sch.uk/ Brockswood school website]

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.

* [http://www.chambersbury.herts.sch.uk/index.php?p=newsletters Chambersbury school website]

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.

* [http://www.chauldeninfants.herts.sch.uk/ Chaulden Infants school website]
* [http://www.chauldenjm.herts.sch.uk/ Chaulden Junior school website]

Eastbrook

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

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.

* [http://www.gadevalley.herts.sch.uk/ Gade Valley school website]

George Street

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

* [http://www.georgestreet.herts.sch.uk/home.html George Street school website]

Hammond

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

* [http://www.georgestreet.herts.sch.uk/home.html Hammond school website]

Haywood Grove

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

* [http://www.haywood.herts.sch.uk/ Haywood Grove school website]

Heath Lane

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

* [http://www.heathlane.herts.sch.uk/ Heath Lane school website]

Hobletts Manor

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

* [http://www.hoblettsinfants.herts.sch.uk/ Hobletts Manor Infants & Nursery school website]
* [http://www.hoblettsjm.herts.sch.uk/ Hobletts Manor Junior school website]

Holtsmere End

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

* [http://www.holtsmereinfants.herts.sch.uk/ Holtsmere End Infant and Nursery school website]
* [http://www.holtsmerejm.herts.sch.uk/ Holtsmere End Junior school website]

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.

* [http://www.hobbshillwood.herts.sch.uk/ Hobbs Hill Wood school website]

Jupiter Drive

The school is in Highfield.

* [http://www.jupiterdrive.herts.sch.uk/ Jupiter Drive school website]

Leverstock Green (Church of England)

* [http://www.leverstockgreen.herts.sch.uk/index.html Leverstock Green school website]

Lime Walk

Situated in Bennetts End.

* [http://www.limewalk.herts.sch.uk/ Lime Walk school website]

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.

* [http://www.lockerspark.herts.sch.uk/ Lockers Park School website]
* Lockers Park School main article

Martindale

Sited in the Gadebridge district.

* [http://www.martindalejmi.herts.sch.uk/ Martindale school website]

Micklem

Sited in the Warners End district.

* [http://www.micklem.herts.sch.uk/ Micklem school website]

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.

* [http://www.nashmills.herts.sch.uk/ Nash Mills school website]

Pixies Hill Primary

Located in the Chaulden district.

* [http://www.pixieshill.herts.sch.uk/ Pixies Hill school website]

Reddings

Located in Bennetts End.

* [http://www.reddings.herts.sch.uk/ Reddings school website]

Rossgate

Located at Galley Hill, Hemel Hempstead.

* [http://www.rossgate.herts.sch.uk/ Rossgate school website]

t 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.

* [http://www.albertthegreat.herts.sch.uk/ St Albert school website]

t Cuthbert Mayne (Roman Catholic)

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

* [http://www.cuthbertmayne.herts.sch.uk/ St Cuthbert Mayne school website]

t Rose's (Roman Catholic)

Situated in Boxmoor.

* [http://www.stroses.herts.sch.uk/ St Rose's school web site]

outh Hill

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

* [http://www.southhill.herts.sch.uk/ South Hill school web site]

Tudor

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

* [http://www.tudor.herts.sch.uk/ Tudor school website]

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.

* [http://www.twowaters.herts.sch.uk/ Two Waters school website]

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.

* [http://www.woodfield.herts.sch.uk/ Woodfield school web site]

Tring

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.

* [http://www.aes-tring.com/ Arts Educational School school website]

Bishop Wood (Church of England)

* [http://www.bishopwood.herts.sch.uk/ Bishop Wood school website]

Dundale

* [http://www.dundale.herts.sch.uk/ Dundale school website]

Goldfield

* [http://www.goldfield.herts.sch.uk/ Goldfield school website]

Grove Road

* [http://www.groveroad.herts.sch.uk/ Grove Road school website]

Villages

Aldbury (Church of England)

* [http://www.aldbury.herts.sch.uk/ Aldbury school website]

Bovingdon

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

* [http://www.bovingdon.herts.sch.uk/ Bovingdon school website]

Flamstead

* [http://www.flamsteadjmi.herts.sch.uk/ Flamstead school website]

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.

* [http://www.gaddesdenrow.herts.sch.uk/ Gaddesden Row school website]

Great Gaddesden (Church of England)

Established in 1855.

* [http://www.greatgaddesden.herts.sch.uk/ Great Gaddesden school website]

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.)

* [http://www.kingslangley-pri.herts.sch.uk/ Kings Langley school website]

Little Gaddesden (Church of England)

* [http://www.littlegaddesden.herts.sch.uk/ Little Gaddesden school website]

Long Marston (Church of England)

* [http://www.longmarston.herts.sch.uk/index.html Long Marston school website]

Markyate

* [http://www.markyate.herts.sch.uk/ Markyate school website]

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.

* [http://www.rudolfsteiner.herts.sch.uk/ Rudolf Steiner school website]

t 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.

* [http://www.stbarts.herts.sch.uk/ St Bartholomews school website]

t 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.

* [http://www.stpauls909.herts.sch.uk/ Chipperfield school website]