History
Kingsbury Technical School (a mixed-sex technical school) and Queen Eleanor's Grammer School for Girls were merged in 1972 to form Queensbury Upper School, when Bedfordshire changed from a two-tier school system to a three-tier system.
Queensbury was the second Grant-maintained school. The school had been flagged for closure but the community, including the local MP, David Madel, fought to keep it open and took advantage of the introduction of the grant-maintained system introduced in 1988. Grant-maintained schools were abolished in 1998, and Queensbury converted to a Foundation School. The ten years as a Grant-maintained school had seen it increase in popularity from very low enrollment numbers (as the school was due to close) to being heavily oversubscribed.
The school converted to being an academy in September 2012, and was renamed Queensbury Academy.
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