Rickmansworth School

Rickmansworth School is a coeducational secondary school of around 1, 200 pupils, situated in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire. AdmissionsRickmansworth 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. LocationThe 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 is a coeducational secondary school of around 1, 200 pupils, situated in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire. AdmissionsRickmansworth 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. LocationThe 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.