page_title: Watford Grammar School for Boys
section_title: School site
hierarchical_section_title: Watford Grammar School for Boys / School site
caption_attribution_description: English: Clarendon Muse and main block of Watford Grammar School for Boys, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
context_page_description: Watford Grammar School for Boys is a partially selective academy for boys in Watford in Hertfordshire, England.
  The school and its sister school, Watford Grammar School for Girls, descend from a Free School founded as a charity school for boys and girls by Elizabeth Fuller in 1704.
  Despite its name, the school accepts boys of all abilities, although approximately a third are selected for academic or musical aptitude, and brothers of existing pupils are also guaranteed places. Its results are among the highest achieved by non-grammar state schools in England.
context_section_description: The school is located about 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) west of Watford town centre, just to the south of Watford tube station and Cassiobury Park.
  The 120-metre (390 ft) long neo-Georgian main block and the adjacent Master's House are Grade II listed buildings.
  The school was used as a location for many of the external and internal shots in the filming of The History Boys.
  In recent years the school has built a gym, a music block (also partly owned by Hertfordshire School of Music) and a Sixth Form centre with a food technology lab, financed through fundraising and the sale of land on the northern edge of the grounds for residential development.
  The school's music block, the "Clarendon Muse", stands on the front lawn of the school.
  The building was completed in December 2007 at the cost of £5 million, and has approximately 2,000 square metres (22,000 sq ft) of space spread out over four floors.
  It is also used by the Hertfordshire School of Music in the evenings and weekends.
  The school's new STEM Centre for the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths was completed in November 2017 and opened by Lord Robert Winston. Funding was providing by national and local government and parental donations supported the fittings and fixtures of the building.
  Many sports are played at the New Field (shared with the Old Boys sports clubs) beside the Grand Union Canal near Cassiobury Park.
caption: The Clarendon Muse (left) and main block
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