Verulam School History & Tradition

There was a time

when free education meant attending the senior classes of an elementary school. Beyond that, St Albans Grammar School or High School for Girls provided a secondary route to further education. And as girls had traditionally left school a year earlier, Central schools nationally extended elementary provision.

The Central School in St Albans

begun in Victoria Street, and gained a new building in Fleetville in 1931. Secondary provision was limited, but free education through scholarships, was provided, eventually being made free for all.

The education authority created two Modern Grammar schools. One would replace the Central School (now Fleetville Junior); the other was on a constrained site on the Spencer building estate between Brampton and Jennings roads.

Because girls were deemed

to require less playing field space than boys, the Modern Girls Grammar would go here, while the Modern Boys’ School would go to the former Central site.

Verulam School

Brampton Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 4PR
Please note that the School also has an entrance on Jennings Road although all visitors should come to the Brampton Road entrance and report to reception.

Telephone: 01727 766100
Absence Line: 01727 754101
Email: admin@verulam.aat.school
Absence Email: absence@verulam.aat.school

Verulam School is part of the
Alban Academies Trust