Established 1970 DfE URN 116440 Tables Ages 11–16 Founded 1970 Gender Mixed-sex education | Type Community School Ofsted Reports Phone +44 1256 473003 | |
Location Vyne Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 5PB
England Address Vyne Rd, Basingstoke RG21 5PB, UK Similar National Trust ‑ The Vyne, Aldworth School, The Costello School, Brighton Hill Communi, Cranbour Business and Enter Profiles | ||
The Vyne Community School, Basingstoke was created out of the merger of two pre-existing schools, Queen Mary's School for Boys, Basingstoke a selective Grammar School, also known as QMSB, and Charles Chute Secondary Modern School, which occurred in 1970. Initially the school was known as Queen Mary's & Charles Chute School, and was the result of the U.K. Government's policy in the 1960s to make all maintained (state funded) schools comprehensive. In the first instance the school remained a single sex institution, becoming coeducational in 1971-72. The name "Queen Mary's" was later transferred to the Queen Mary's College, a Sixth Form College, in Cliddesden Road, Basingstoke. The school was thereupon renamed The Vyne School, in commemoration of the links that both schools had to The Vyne, a property owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, former home of the Sandys and Chute families, just North of Basingstoke.
The school is a coeducational community school, for young people aged 11–16, and still occupies the site of the former Queen Mary's School for Boys, in Vyne Road, Basingstoke. It is a specialist school for the Performing Arts.
The Vyne is also the only school in Basingstoke to have a Combined Cadet Force (CCF).