The school received specialist status as an Arts College in 2000 and is a part of the LaSWAP Sixth Form Consortium.

Previous headteacher Michael Shew hit out at a supply teacher for secretly filming pupils misbehaving in class.

He confirmed that the school had featured on Channel 5’s hidden camera documentary Classroom Chaos after he was contacted by the Camden New Journal.

Mr Shew argued that the programme’s makers used underhand tactics to film children without their permission and had opened up the possibility of legal action.

Former headteacher Jo Armitage was praised as having a significantly positive impact on the school in a 2010 Ofsted report .

A subsequent Ofsted monitoring report in September 2016 judged senior leaders and governors as "taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement... in order to become a good school"[6] and stated that "In a short space of time the new headteacher (Nicholas John) has been instrumental in delivering significant improvements.

"[6] The most recent Ofsted report in March 2018 gave the school a 'Good'[7] rating again and judged the effectiveness of leadership and management as 'Outstanding'.