The Vyne Community School

The Vyne Community School, Basingstoke was created out of the merger of two pre-existing schools, Queen Mary's School for Boys, Basingstoke a selective Grammar School, also known as QMSB, and Charles Chute Secondary Modern School, which occurred in 1970. Initially the school was known as Queen Mary's & Charles Chute School, and was the result of the U.K. Government's policy in the 1960s to make all maintained (state funded) schools comprehensive. In the first instance the school remained a single sex institution, becoming coeducational in 1971–72. The name "Queen Mary's" was later transferred to the Queen Mary's College, a Sixth Form College, in Cliddesden Road, Basingstoke. The school was thereupon renamed The Vyne School, in commemoration of the links that both schools had to The Vyne, a property owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, former home of the Sandys and Chute families, just north of Basingstoke.

The Vyne Community School
Address
Vyne Road Basingstoke , Hampshire , RG21 5PB England
Coordinates	51.27396°N 1.08908°W / 51.27396; -1.08908
Information
Type	Community School
Established	1970
Local authority	Hampshire
Department for Education URN	116440 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Website	http://www.vyne.hants.sch.uk

The school is a coeducational community school, for young people aged 11–16, and still occupies the site of the former Queen Mary's School for Boys, in Vyne Road, Basingstoke. It is a specialist school for the Performing Arts.

The Vyne is also the only school in Basingstoke to have a Combined Cadet Force (CCF).