ArtsEd provides specialist vocational training at secondary, further and higher education level in musical theatre and acting for film and television.

Both Cone and Ripman offered curricula combining a general academic education with training in the arts, in preparation for professional careers connected with the theatre.

It taught classes such as "Freehand drawing in all its branches, practical Geometry and perspective, pottery and tile painting, design for decorative purposes – as in Wall-papers, Furniture, Metalwork, Stained Glass".

[12] The school was depicted by Thomas Erat Harrison in an 1882 book Bedford Park, celebrating the then-fashionable garden suburb.

Students are required to study mainstream subjects, in preparation for the GCSE and A-Levels, alongside their performing arts pursuits.

[14] Besides the A-Levels pathway, Sixth Form students have an option to complete a BTEC Extended Diploma in a performing arts discipline.

[18] A non-degree foundation course is offered for students who do not meet the academic requirements for admission into the bachelor's degree programmes.