Again expansion meant that a new building was needed and, in 1938, the current college was built on the north side of Bradgers Hill Road as the new site for Luton Modern School.

[citation needed] In 1971 the College participated in the BBC television version of Top of the Form inter-schools quiz show.

During the exchange the College students had meetings with the Indian President, Sanjiva Reddy, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan (the former Viceroy's Palace) and Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister, at her residence at 1, Akbar Road.

On 21 April 2001 Dave Edwards, a former Physics teacher at the College, became the first man to win the million pounds in the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

He competed in both series of Are You an Egghead?, reaching the last 16 in 2008, and the final in 2009, where he lost to fellow Millionaire winner Pat Gibson.

Simon Kitchener (2000-2012) was succeeded by Chris Nicholls (2012-2018), who retired in September 2018, to be followed by the present, fifth, incumbent, Altaf Hussain.

The Office for Standards in Education deemed the following to be the strengths and weaknesses of Luton Sixth Form College (quoting directly):[citation needed] It currently offers more than 60 AS/A Level and BTEC courses.