St. George's School history

Cecil Grant, to use his own words, "migrated" to the town in 1906 from Keswick in the Lake District.

Grant with most of the staff and many pupils moved to St George's in time for the beginning of the 1907 spring term.

In 1912 the school took its first board students and the following year St George's Training College became part of the school.

By 1914 the school had grown and needed space for over three hundred girls so it moved to a new, purpose built school on its present site in Ravelston and Murrayfield.

A Montessori unit was opened in 1917.

Capital campaigns were underway for war memorials and school buildings when, in 1922, the anonymous gift of a new school chapel was announced.

In 1939 the training college facility closed.

When the school finally reopened in October of 1944, restoration work was undertaken to bring it back into working order.

In 1947 a former St George's pupil, Mr.

Gedge in 1970, decisions by local and central government meant that the 3 secondary schools in Harpenden became all-ability five-form entry schools.

In the 1976, the neighbouring girls’ school, Lansdowne House, merged with St George’s.

First Class January 1977

The school marked its centenary in 2007 with a visit of Princess Anne, an expansion to 6 forms of entry, and a multi-million pound building development: the last likely for a while given the credit crunch and cuts in government capital spending.