[1] Her obituary in The Guardian called the school "an outstanding centre of multi-cultural education".

In September 2009, the school admitted 283 new students: 71 places are offered to the girls who scored highest in the Wandsworth Year 6 Test; the remaining 212 places are offered to siblings of current students and then to those girls living closest to the school.

[2] While nominally an all-girls school, Burntwood has a small number of male students in the sixth form.

Fully complete in 2014, the project that cost £40.9 million saw the opening of six new buildings (four four-storey teaching pavilions, a new sports hall and a new performing arts buildings) to create a new-look campus.

[4] In October 2015, Burntwood School won the RIBA Stirling Prize, the UK's leading architecture award.