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The school was moved to the gateway building of the former monastery in 1871 and has since been expanded with additional buildings.

When the Direct Grant system was abolished in 1975, the school became fully independent.

The school operates a house system, whereby all members of the school are split into 4 houses that compete in a range of sporting and other activities.

The Headmaster since 1993 has been Andrew Grant.

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• Nicholas Breakspeare, better known as Pope Adrian IV
• Alexander NeckamAlexander Neckam ( September 8 1157 1217), was an English scientist and teacher. He was born at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, on the same night as King Richard I. Neckam's mother nursed the prince with her own son, who thus became Richard's foster-br, scientist and teacher
• Matthew ParisMatthew Paris (c. 1200 1259) was a Benedictine monk and chronicler, based at St Alban's Abbey in Hertfordshire, England. In spite of his surname, and of his knowledge of the French language, he was of English birth but may have studied at Paris in his you, historian and monk
• William Cowper, 1st Baron Cowper . Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
• Sir Thomas Spencer WellsThomas Spencer Wells (1818-97)was born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, on 3 February 1818, and received his early education at St Albans School (then in the Lady Chapel of the Abbey). After a short time as a pupil of a Barnsley (Yorkshire) surgeon he studie, surgeon
• Charles WilliamsCharles Walter Stansby Williams ( September 20, 1886 May 15, 1945), educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire and University College, London, he was a staff editor at the Oxford University Press, at the London offices from 1908 until 1939 and afterwards (1886-1945), poet, novelist, and theological writer
• Ralph ChubbRalph Nicholas Chubb ( 8 February 1892 14 January 1960) was a British poet, printer, and artist. Heavily influenced by Whitman, Blake, and the Romantics, his work was the creation of a highly intricate personal mythology, one that was anti- materialist an (1892-1960), poet, printer, artist
• Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, archaeologist
• Stephen HawkingReuters/Stephen Hird Stephen William Hawking, CH CBE FRS (born January 8 1942) is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Hawking is Lucasian professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge (a post once held by Isaac Newton). Biography, cosmologist
• Sir Tim RiceSir Tim Rice (born November 10, 1944, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, and educated at St Albans School and Lancing College) is a lyricist for musical theater, a radio presenter, television gameshow panelist and an author. He is best known for his c, lyricist
• Mike Newell, film director

Alumni of St Albans School, referred to as 'Old Albanians', are eligible for membership in the school's masonic lodge, number 4999. This lodge is also called 'Old Albanian'.