Rickmansworth School
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| Motto | Nisi Dominus Aedificaverit |
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| Established | 1954 |
| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Keith Douglas |
| Chair of Governors | John de Braux |
| Location |
Scots Hill Croxley Green, Rickmansworth Hertfordshire WD3 3AQ England Coordinates: 51°38′42″N 0°27′22″W / 51.645°N 0.456°W |
| DfE URN | 136606 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Staff | 80 approx. |
| Students | 1277 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | green |
| Former name | Rickmansworth Grammar School |
| Website | Official site |
Rickmansworth School (colloquially Ricky School), formerly Rickmansworth Grammar School, is a coeducational secondary school of around 1,200 pupils, situated in Croxley Green (Hertfordshire), near Rickmansworth.
Rickmansworth is a day secondary school, providing education to boys and girls aged 11 to 18 of all academic abilities, although 25% of the 11+ intake are selected using tests in mathematics and verbal reasoning, with a further 10% selected for aptitude in music. Most children are admitted at 11 and there is an additional intake at 16 into the Sixth Form.
Rickmansworth is a self-governing academy school and the governing body are responsible for the employment of staff, the admission of pupils, and all aspects of the organisation and running of the School. Previously the school was a 'grant maintained school' in the 1990s, with much the same powers.
The school stands in twenty-six acres of Metropolitan Green Belt woodland situated in a residential area well served by road and rail, on the south side of the A412 near the Royal Masonic School. The M25 motorway is five minutes distant by car, and Croxley and Rickmansworth Metropolitan line stations are ten- and fifteen-minute walks respectively. Watford Junction station (National Rail to London Euston) is fifteen to twenty minutes by car. The school campus was used as the location for the university in which Prof. Henry Jones, Jr. (Indiana Jones) teaches in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Rickmansworth School, the fifth grammar school to be built after the war, was formally opened on 20 June 1956 by Countess Mountbatten of Burma, the first students having arrived in September 1954. In the mid-1960s it had around 950 boys and girls, and was situated in eighteen acres of land.
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