Pupils included Albert Edward McKenzie who won the Victoria Cross.

[1] The school converted to an Ark academy for the 2007-08 academic year.

This school is split up into three sections named after notable local figures: Chaplin, Babbage and Seacole.

The Chaplin and Babbage blocks are two separate halves of Key Stage 3.

[2] The Ofsted report of July 2010 rated it as "Good, with outstanding capacity to improve".