Queensbury Upper School
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Queensbury Upper School is an upper school in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
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[edit] History
Kingsbury Grammar school for Boys and Queen Eleanor's School for Girls were joined in 1972, to form Queensbury Upper School, when Bedfordshire changed from a two-tier school system to a three-tier system (Lower, Middle and Upper).
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 takes students from 13 to 18 and includes a Sixth Form.
The school is run by Mr. Nigel Hill
[edit] Location
Queensbury is surrounded by three roads, Canesworde Road, Langdale Road and Hilton Avenue (Most of the roads located in this area are named after places in the Lake District). It is in South West Dunstable, but takes children not only from south west Dunstable but also east Dunstable. It takes about 5 minutes walk from students to get from east to west.
[edit] The site
Because the school used to be two separate schools, the buildings are quite a distant apart. There are two entrances from different sides of the site. On Langdale Road, there is the entrance to East building (the former Queen Eleanor's), and opposite Meadway there is an entrance to west (via. Canesworde Road). The most recent addition to the school was 'Central Building' in 1999, the building houses the new library, medical room, reception, sixth form common room, computer suite and much more. There is a separate room for revision which consist of 30 computers. West Building includes classrooms, technology rooms, art rooms, a hall, the boy's changing room and a gym. East Building includes classrooms, a media room, science labs, language rooms, the girls' changing rooms ,a hall and a gym. Recently Queensbury got new computers for some of their computer suites but unfortunately, some intranet connections are down.
