The school is an academy, and is part of the Chorus Education Trust.

The current site started construction in 1978 and opened to students a few years later in 1983.

Despite the school being closer to several Sheffield residential areas (including Beighton and Mosborough) than other Derbyshire ones, the admissions policy is set in such a way to favour pupils coming from the Derbyshire feeder schools in areas such as Killamarsh, Ridgeway and Renishaw.

[1] This is because most students from the Mosborough and Beighton area attend Westfield School.

Students attain results that are well above average at GCSE for Derbyshire (94% 5 A* - C, 63% including English and Maths in 2012).