Due to this, students had previously been required to take Business at GCSE but since the 2010 introduction of the English Baccalaureate this is now no longer mandatory.

The school received media attention in September 2009 when it required female pupils to wear trousers.

[5] In November 2009 two teachers were suspended after it emerged that they accompanied pupils to a live sex show at a bar during a school trip to Bangkok's notorious red light district.

Pupils can be identified as members of their house by one of the stripes on their ties – Red for Wooller, Blue for Milner, Green for Sunderland, and Yellow for Oldfield.

For several years the school has had in place a 'LORIC' system[9] - adapted from the PiXL edge scheme to nurture valuable and employable skills, this stands for 'Leadership', 'Organisation', 'Resilience', 'Initiative', and 'Communication'.

The school competes in local and national competitions at rugby, hockey, netball, swimming, and cricket and basketball.

Its music department holds concerts and has provided ensembles that have performed outside the school, such as at the Royal Albert Hall.

The 727 shuttles members of the public between Keighley, via East Morton to the school, then heads onto Cullingworth via Wilsden and Harden.

[11] Overcrowding is a problem at school opening/closing times, with reports of buses taking up to ten minutes to load all of the passengers, causing severe traffic issues which is not helped by the large numbers of cars collecting/dropping off students.