Featuring predominantly Georgian architecture, Caistor was established as a Roman fortress, due to its excellent strategic position on the North Western edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, and a number of ancient freshwater springs, which would have been the primary water source for the settlement.

Now recognised as a valuable historical site, Caistor has numerous listed buildings and two scheduled monuments, one being the original Roman walls.

The school was officially opened by Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham, who returned twenty one years later, to present awards at a speech night.

[1] On Thursday 23 November 1950, the headmaster since 1938, Mr Norman Graham Collins, died in Scunthorpe War Memorial Hospital, in his mid-40s.

He had attended Brigg Grammar School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and began his position in April 1951; he served in the RAF as a Flt Lt in World War II.

[17] Mr Cooke, appointed aged 45 in January 1965, had attended Sandbach School, and had read Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, previously being the deputy director of education for Sheffield.

[19] The headteacher Charles Hallett retired in December 1974; he died in January 1988 aged 76, in Louth County Hospital.

She visited Caistor as the former Lincolnshire chief constable, John Barnett, compiled, for her, a report on TV violence on children.

[28] The Caistor Comprehensive Campaign was headed by Dr Chris Allison, who favoured closing both schools, and sending most children to Market Rasen.

A good position in the local school league tables, published from 1992, would attract many parents from the Grimsby area.

It is sited near the border of the Brocklesby House estate, the Yarborough family seat, and the landmark Pelham's Pillar is situated a mile to the north of the Academy.

The Pillar is in the grounds of the Brocklesby estate and is an observation tower built as a memorial to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough.

The facilities were opened on 17 October 2007, by John Godber, a renowned English playwright and Artistic Director of Hull Truck Theatre Company.

For a number of years, the school was also the holder of the Artsmark award from Arts Council England, achieving Gold level in 2007.

[36] Today the Academy has a variety of buildings of different ages including some temporary facilities, due to ongoing development of the site in to ensure that it meets the requirements of a modern educational establishment.

Later, in 1996,[37] another two-storey teaching block was constructed, housing classrooms for Religious Studies, History, Geography and Modern Foreign Languages.

The school library was relocated to a mobile classroom which was no longer needed after the new block was built and an IT suite was installed in its place.

Following a campaign to retain community use of the facility, West Lindsey District Council agreed to manage the building on the school's behalf, commencing 1 April 2006.