Cedars Upper School


Cedars Upper School is an upper school and sixth form with academy status, located in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England. Former students of the school are known as Old Cedarians.

History

Grammar school

The school was founded as a grammar school in 1921 in Church Square, at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard. The house was formerly occupied by Mary Norton.

Comprehensive

In 1973 the school became a comprehensive school and moved to its current location on Mentmore Road. Leighton Middle School was founded at the former location.
The school became a specialist Mathematics and Computing College in September 2006, and due to the specialism, the school also became a Microsoft Sponsored School. The school then converted to academy status in September 2011.
Since September 2018 the school has become a component of the multi-academy Chiltern Learning Trust. In April 2019 it was announced that French and German A Levels would be cut "due to limited uptake, making them “nonviable”.

Houses

In 2010, the school changed to a vertical tutoring system, having five houses named after rivers; Orinoco, Lena, Danube, Zambezi and Murray, though the Murray house was removed in September 2016. In September 2019, the vertical tutoring system was removed and replaced with horizontal tutoring, with the houses being replaced by the year groups and upper and lower sixth being combined.
The former houses were named after the patron saints of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; George, Andrew, Patrick and David

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