Colonel Henry Drax is the distinguished founder of Queen's College. The endowment for a free school or college in Bridgetown was made in his will registered on October 4th, 1683 after his death. During that time, the school had many names - Drax's School, The Parish School of St. Michael, The Free School and the Parochial Charity School among others, and finally Queen's College in 1883.
During January of 1883 thirty-three girls were admitted - aged between 3 and 19 years old. By December of that year, sixty girls attended the school. The Education Commission decided that a female principal and assistants should be procured from England. The syllabus would include Divinity, English, History, Geography, French, Class Singing and one branch of Science. To these would be added subjects of the parent's choice.

Miss Germain was appointed Principal and arrived from England to take up her post. She died soon afterwards and Miss Helen Veitch Brown was then offered the appointment. During this time, the school was known as The Girls' Central School and co-existed with Combermere on the Constitution Road site. After Combermere was relocated to Weymouth in 1943, Queen's College was left in sole possession of the site as a girls' school.

Dame Elsie Payne With the appointment of Mrs I. E.Randal (1951-1970), better educational standards were seen. A sixth form was fully established. However, history was made when Dame Elsie Payne became principal from 1970. She was the first Barbadian principal having entered the school as a student in 1936.
The first Queen's College boy entered the school in 1977. It was in 1981, however, that co-education was fully introduced when thirty-eight first form boys entered the school. After Dame Elsie's retirement, Mrs. Colleen Winter-Brathwaite was appointed principal in 1985, followed by Mrs. Coreen Kennedy in 1997, who is our present principal.

Queen's College was established in its present form in 1883 as a Secondary Grammar School for girls, although its original foundation as part of a co-educational institution dates back to 1683. Queen's College existed as a girls' school from 1826 to 1981 when it became again a co-educational secondary school.
In 1990 the school was relocated from the small original site at Constitution Road, St. Michael to its present 20 acre campus, Husbands, St. James. Queen's College is a multi-racial school with pupils drawn from a cross-section of Barbadian Society.

It is one of the twenty- three government day schools in Barbados and offers free secondary and tertiary education to 972 pupils from Forms I - VI.

Queen's College is one of the twenty- three government day schools in Barbados and offers free secondary and tertiary education to 993 pupils from Forms I - VI.
Students entering Queen's College in the first form at age 11 are selected on the basis of their examination scores from within the first decile of ability range of candidates who sit the annual Common Entrance Examination.

Queen's College is widely known and highly regarded in the Caribbean as a school with a tradition of academic excellence . There is an outstanding record of performance in the regional examinations of the Caribbean Examinations Council, the International Baccalaureate, the Cambridge Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations. Annually 75-80% of Queen's College graduates enter Universities in the West Indies, Great Britain, Canada and United States and achieve fine results.