It is located in Arnold but it serves children from various nearby areas including Killisick, Daybrook, Woodthorpe, Mapperley, Carlton, Sherwood.

Pupils came from about a ten-mile (16 km) radius : the county was in an extensive school building programme, to cope with the post-war baby boom.

[citation needed] The school operated a house system where the 'names' were then living international identities - clockwise around the three sided middle school, these were: Pupils were encouraged to forge links with the countries represented by those houses [original research?]

[1] The school quickly allowed sixth form students and GCSE pupils (Years 10 & 11) to return, but the reduced number of classrooms - smoke and structural damage meant that the entire Lower School building was uninhabitable, except the reception and hall area - prevented pupils from years 7, 8 & 9 from returning for several weeks.

[2][3] According to The Daily Telegraph, the student's mother hired the stripper as a birthday gift for her 16-year-old son as a mistake, intending to order a man in a gorilla suit.

The whole of the upper school grounds were demolished and remodeled into additional sports pitches and recreational areas.