[1] It was founded as Maidenhead High School in 1905 by its first Headmistress, Mary Burn, moved to The Castle Hill Centre (then called The Elms) in 1907 and in 1959 moved to Farm Road, where it still stands today.

In 2002 the school achieved the status of a Technology College and the Sportsmark Award.

In October 2015 Newlands Girls' School converted to academy status.

[2] The trade unionist and feminist Dorothy Elliott attended the County Girls' school, Maidenhead before she took modern languages at the University of Reading graduating in 1916.

Elliott went on to take a leading role in establishing better wages for women.