Westminster Under School was founded in 1943 in the precincts of Westminster School in Little Dean’s Yard, just behind Westminster Abbey. The seventeen boys with whom it began rapidly became sixty in number and by 1950 there were eighty boys in the Under School. The boys had to compete for space with the senior school pupils who had returned from evacuation at the end of the war, but in 1951 the Under School acquired its own premises in Eccleston Square. Numbers of pupils continued to rise during the sixties and seventies and in 1981 the school moved again to its present site overlooking the Westminster playing fields in Vincent Square. There are now 265 pupils in the school.
