The school's facilities now include an indoor heated swimming pool, a chapel and a boathouse on the River Ouse.

In 2009 a £4.3 million[4] two-storey learning centre with landscaping, parking and bike storage, called the LearningCentre@AHS was built,[5][6] and now serves as the home of the school's sixth form facilities.

Recent headmasters have included Donald Frith OBE (1959–1978), Dr J M Frost (1979–1984), and Alan Walker, an old boy and former English teacher at the school (1984–92), all of whom have since died.

[7] Andrew Daly was Headteacher until 2024, who prior to joining the school, held a position in the senior leadership team at St Wilfrid's Catholic School and Sixth Form College in Wakefield.

[9] Similar to most secondary schools in York, it gets well above-average GCSE results,[10] with 70% of Year 11 students achieving five or more A*-C grades including English and Maths in 2009 (87% achieved five or more GCSE passes at grade C and above).