It is a day and boarding school for pupils aged 11 to 17 years and had 192 boys on the roll in 2015, 115 of them boarders.

[3] The farm includes a dairy herd, beef animals, sows, poultry and a flock of ewes with lambs.

[citation needed] The school will continue to enter boys in Year 9, provided there are sufficient places available.

The main school building incorporates parts of a medieval house which was owned by John Pym who, during the English Civil War played a role in bringing about the downfall of Charles I.

In 1943 the 535th Automatic Weapons battalion of the United States Army was billeted in the house and grounds while they prepared for D-Day.