Quintin Kynaston School

Quintin Kynaston is a secondary school in the St John's Wood, North London, England, and was founded in 1969 by the merger of Quintin Grammar School and Kynaston School. The predecessor schools had been built on the same site and opened in September 1956. It has been an academy school since November 2011. The school had previously been rated as Outstanding in 2008 and 2011 by Ofsted, the English schools' inspectorate, however in 2014 it was rated Requires Improvement, and in April 2017 it was rated Inadequate and as a consequence was placed in Special Measures.HistoryOriginal foundationsQuintin school was founded in 1886 by Quintin Hogg (grandfather of the mid-20th-century politician of the same name) as the Polytechnic Secondary School, part of Regent Street Polytechnic. Named the Polytechnic Boys' Day School from 1886–1919, it was a voluntary aided school. Prior to 1956, in a different location, Kynaston had been known as Paddington Secondary Technical School.Grammar and Comprehensive SchoolsIn 1944 Quintin became a grammar school, and in 1946 was renamed the Quintin School after Quintin Hogg, who founded the Polytechnic at Regent Street in 1882 building on the legacy of the Royal Polytechnic Institution. It was a voluntary controlled school. A new building was built in 1956 in St John's Wood. It had around 550 boys.