Able to be seen from Stapleford's Bardill's roundabout, it has a lower and upper site over the A52 and is consequently the only school in England to have a footbridge over an A-road.

At the end of Year 11 (aged 16), around half the students choose to stay on at the academy's sixth form for further education.

Each year group is split into the P-half and S-half due to the school's large pupil intake to allow for easier lesson co-ordination.

He stated that the use of the first preference first criteria could militate against the free expression of parental choice in some cases and offered no advantages that would outweigh this potential disadvantage.

[3] George Spencer's fiftieth birthday was scheduled to come in 2010, and it came there–the milestone was marked by turning the grey globe on the logo gold with a "50".

On 17 August 2010, following consideration of all the consultation feedback, the governing body of George Spencer Foundation School took the decision to continue the conversion to Academy status.

[4] Also, ITV broadcast live from the hall for their breakfast television programme Daybreak on 25 August 2011, showing several students opening their GCSE results.

To raise money for the 2011 Year 11 prom, students organised the academy's first music festival–The Big Friday Night–which was held on 6 May from 6:30 pm.