The school's original motto was Alta Pete, Latin for "Aim High".

Goole Secondary Modern School was on the opposite side of Boothferry Road, which was built in 1936, and had 1,100 boys and girls.

The school receives funding directly from central government but still has links with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.

[citation needed] It will also fund renovation of the original Edwardian building and reinstatement of the Edwardian listed gardens fronting Boothferry Road, the return of the car park on Airmyn Road to tennis courts and the demolition of some non-historical parts of the site to make way for the creation of landscaped outside areas.

[10] Peter Teed was reported by The Yorkshire Post to have introduced to the school "innovative practices as vocational qualifications and coursework assessments long before they became standard practice", and to have "adopted an inclusive approach, opening the sixth form to pupils from Goole’s Secondary Modern school and steering it through the transition to a comprehensive unit".