The college has over 2,700 full-time students and over 8,000 part-time adult learners from places such as The New Forest, Bournemouth, Poole, East Dorset, the Waterside area of Southampton, South Wiltshire, Eastleigh, and the Isle of Wight.

The offices are also used by Connexions and EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance) attendants located at Student Services.

Many of the lessons held in this block are Music courses with their own sound rooms and recording studios, Performing Arts and Theatre with their own Performing Arts Centre, Media which also have sound rooms and digital editing suites, Philosophy, Politics, Archeology, History, and Business which has over five computer suits for its study.

The sports centre is also home to the National Volleyball League's New Forest Volleyball Club The Hard Brock Café The Hard Brock Café is a main social attraction for many college students and also holds the offices of the Students' Union.

The classes were held in the Wesleyan Church Sunday School, with only 18 children attending under the head mistress, Miss Moore.

Although classes were first held in the church Sunday school, Brockenhurst never had any religious affiliation or received any funding from ecclesiastical authorities.

It was always funded by the Hampshire Education Authority, and the Sunday school room was used simply because it offered suitable accommodation.

Along with this the education board granted more funding and further building work; this was followed by a new hall, kitchen and a woodwork room.

The new motto "Inter Silvas Quaerere Verum" (Seek Truth [or Learning] Amongst the Trees), an adaptation from Horace's Epistles, refers to the school's location in the New Forest.

The name remained for seven years until the Hampshire Education Authority sanctioned the change to a grammar school.