Lady Loder, of Beach House, bought the land north of the church in 1893, at a cost of £580, for a school.

The new school's Coat of Arms was (and remains) the 'Saltire' Cross of St Andrew with the motto Nihil Sine Labore (Nothing Without Effort).

The curriculum included Reading, Writing, Spelling, Poetry, Arithmetic, Scripture, Science, Geography, Shorthand, French, Book keeping, Domestic Economy, Cookery and Singing.

Physical Education included swings for the girls, parallel bars for the boys and Swedish Drill had to be performed inside if the weather was bad.

1897 nationally was an important year as it was Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and it is recorded that the girls made white crosses to smarten up their school clothes.

The Worthing Observer of Sunday 31 March 1901 advertised "Evening Classes" of Cookery, Dressmaking, Home Nursing and Ambulance work.

Earlier in this month the Medical Officer of Health closed the school for 3 weeks due to a measles epidemic.

Music and drama featured prominently in the early history of the school and in January 1913 an evening of entertainment was arranged to raise money for the Sports Fund.

The girls were transferred to Davison School and the remaining 171 boys were placed in 4 forms according to ability in English and Arithmetic.

6 Southey Road In 1931 the infant classes were transferred to Christ Church and Holy Trinity Schools.

The late 1930s saw the outbreak of war and in the autumn of 1938 the school was temporarily closed so that staff could distribute gas masks to the people of Worthing.

An appeal had been launched in 1939 to raise £2,500 for extensions to the school and a new science and woodwork room was opened in June 1940 by The Bishop of Lewes.

During the war staff supervised boys picking peas at Roundstone Farm to improve productivity.

By the end of the war the Headmaster Mr Parrit had less than 100 pupils and due to austerity very little was done to celebrate the schools 50th birthday in 1947.

The foundation stone was laid by the Mayor, Mrs. M I Keele, on 14 May 1963 and dedicated by the Bishop of Chichester The Right Reverend Roger P. Wilson.

Keith Andrew Ltd of Worthing built it and a 9-foot bronze cross was erected under the instruction of the architect Mr. Claridge in keeping with the school's Christian ethos.

In August 1970 plans to demolish the old Clifton Road School and replace it with flats were raised, and ultimately carried out.

1972 saw the 75th anniversary celebrations along with the official opening and dedication of the new arts centre by the Right Reverend Simon Phipps, Bishop of Horsham.

In September 1998, St. Andrew's won the Potter Bailey Cricket Trophy after the final against The Angmering School.

A fibreglass statue of St. Andrew casting a fishing net was located in the pond at the school main entrance.