The school was opened in 1938. It housed two departments, run as separate entities: the Mellow Lane Senior Boys' School and the Mellow Lane Senior Girls' School.[1]
In 1948, Mellow Lane was established as a co-educational comprehensive school.[2] It was then one of only two experimental comprehensives in the UK permitted by the UK Government.[3]
It was a grant-maintained school between 1 April 1992 and 31 August 1999, and became a foundation secondary comprehensive school on 1 September 1999.[4]
The architects of the building were Curtis and Burchett.[5] The building was extended in 1949 and 1963.[6]
Houses
There were four houses during much of the school's existence: Dower, which was red; Manor, which was blue; Park, which was green; and Round, which was yellow. These were named after local manor houses.
^https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03057875480000161 Page 145, S.W.B. Watson (1954) Vocational training in a comprehensive school, The Vocational Aspect of Secondary and Further Education, 6:13, 144-150, DOI: 10.1080/03057875480000161 Retrieved on 6 March 2020
^https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp38-39 Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld and D C Yaxley, 'Hayes: Education', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner, ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn and R B Pugh (London, 1971), pp. 38-39. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp38-39. Retrieved on 6 March 2020
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