It served the needs of the rapidly growing population of the western edge of the Municipal Borough of Ealing and was provided by Middlesex County Council.

The head teacher from 1991 to 2008 was Kate Griffin, a former President of the Association of School and College Leaders and formerly President of the International Confederation of Principals, the first British head elected to lead the worldwide organisation representing headteachers.

Kate Griffin retired on 31 December 2008 and was replaced by Mathew Cramer, who was formerly a deputy head teacher at Greenford High School.

In this mini campus style school there are 9 buildings, A for Aristotle, B for Brunel, C for Curie, D for Dickens, E for Escher, F for Fitzgerald, G for Gavaskar, H for Hawking (dining hall, which was from the original Greenford high school site just refurbished) and the new purpose built I-block built for the year 7's and select year 8's and sixth form.

The school is one of the most ethnically mixed in Ealing, and includes students from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds; Bangladeshi, Somali, Indian, Afro-Caribbean, Pakistani, English and Irish, including students from many faiths, such as Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, and Christians.