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St Clement Danes Grammar School

St Clement Danes School
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Motto Loyauté M’Oblige
Established 1862
Type Academy
Headteacher Josephine Valentine BSc, PhD
Location Chenies Road
Chorleywood
Hertfordshire
WD3 6EW
England
51°39′49″N 0°30′50″W / 51.6637°N 0.514°W / 51.6637; -0.514Coordinates: 51°39′49″N 0°30′50″W / 51.6637°N 0.514°W / 51.6637; -0.514
DfE URN 136901 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1285
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Houses 8 houses
Website St Clement Danes

St Clement Danes School is a mixed academy school in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.

It takes students aged 11 (Year 7) through to 18 (Year 13).

The school occupies a large site to the northwest of Rickmansworth in Chorleywood. It is about a mile (1.6 km) from Chorleywood station but there are buses from the station and Watford. It is situated on Chenies Road (A404), which at that point occupies the boundary of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire for a half mile, adjacent to the north side of the school. The school is less than a mile west of junction 18 of the M25.

The school was founded in 1862 by the church wardens of St Clement Danes Parish in Aldwych, London and opened in Houghton Street. It was funded from income from the St Clement Danes Holborn Estate, a charity founded in 1551 which owned a piece of land on the north side of Holborn.

The St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Grammar School for Boys remained in Houghton Street until 1928, when it transferred to a new site on Du Cane Road in the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith, where it flourished as a grammar school until 1975. The school had a well-known choir which featured in a 1975 EMI recording (ASD 3117) of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, conducted by André Previn with the LSO (and chorus). The site was next to Hammersmith Hospital, and is now occupied by St Clements House, a block of flats and Woodlane High School.


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