All pupils previously at Moorhead automatically transferred to the new school, which has had a sixth form provision from September 2009 up until July 2024.

Accrington Moorhead High School was on Cromwell Avenue off Queens Road West.

In 2008, Nosheen Iqbal wrote in The Guardian that Moorhead High School had been "failing".

[3] The school's headteacher believed that the change had been brought about through the Creative Partnerships approach, an Arts Council England programme.

[3] Dominic Brunt, actor, known for his part in Emmerdale as Paddy Kirk.