The school offers academic scholarships, which aid students from lower income backgrounds to afford tuition and boarding fees.

The school was named after Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, the son of an Army captain, who died leading his regiment in battle.

In 1836 he was appointed Assistant Master at Rugby by Doctor Thomas Arnold, one of the founders of the British public school system.

Extracurricular activities includes sport, debate, creative writing, dramatics, declamation, verse speaking and choir.

The tradition of singing the school song and the founder's hymn in the chapel or in assemblies held in the auditorium continues to this day.

The school offers language options of Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Nepali, French and German.