Old School and attached laboratories at Leighton Park are Grade II listed buildings.

Leighton Park was opened in 1890 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), as a public school for boys.

Grove House School had educated notable personalities such as Lord Lister, Alfred Waterhouse and Thomas Hodgkin.

[8] Leighton Park appeared on the BBC One Show in 2020, featuring the school's production of PPE for health workers during the Covid-19 pandemic [9] Leighton Park was featured on the BBC Politics Show, which was hosted at the site in December 2010.

[10] In April 2005, Quaker-based Sunday Worship was broadcast live from Leighton Park on BBC Radio 4.

Heard by an estimated 1.75 million listeners, the sequence of readings, music, ministry and silence "reflected the essence of Quaker values to the wider world.

Maverick was used "to build a more adventurous curriculum for pupils" and helped students learn physics.