The school educates children aged 4 to 13 in two sites in North Oxford: Bardwell Road and Richards Lane.

The school was founded by a committee of Oxford dons, among whom the most active was a Mr George.

[1] Teaching started in September 1877 at rooms in Balliol Hall, located in St Giles', central Oxford, under A. E.

In 1894, Lynam took out a lease on land at the current site at Bardwell Road in central North Oxford, just to the west of the River Cherwell.

£4,000 was raised through subscriptions from local parents for the erection of new school buildings[4] and the move was completed within a year.