The school was closed on 31 January 2019 after attempts to sell it to an overseas education provider were unsuccessful.

The Brigidine Sisters established a convent and school at Windsor in 1948, the second such founded by the order in England and Wales.

[2] Queensmead, the Victorian bricked mansion the Sisters moved into, remained one of the school's main buildings.

The school became run by lay staff but retained its Catholic ethos and religious character.

[3] In 2011 parents and governors discussed a possibility of the school entering the state sector but an agreement could not be reached.