[1] The school was housed in what is now referred to as the old Municipal Buildings in Corporation Street.

[1] After Taunton Grammar School in Corporation Street closed in 1885,[1] a new girls' grammar school, funded by Bishop Fox's endowment,[2] opened in the former Roman Catholic Church on The Crescent in 1890: it moved to Staplegrove Road in 1895 and to Kingston Road in 1940.

[3] It then relocated from Kingston Road into new purpose-built accommodation, on a 30-acre (12.1 ha) site at Bishop Fox Drive, which was opened by Prime Minister, John Major, in 1994.

[4] In September 2003, the school was awarded Specialist Status as a Business and Enterprise College and, in July 2011, it became an Academy.

[7] England cricketer Jack Leach attended the school.