It has languages, mathematics and science specialisms and trains a quarter of its students at a national level in a competitive Olympic sport.

It operated on an all-day use principle with student attending in the afternoon for additional reading time.

Students in the specialist stream may have a timetabled lesson then in one of their additional subjects.

The school has a calisthenics park, a beach volleyball court and a 40 meter long boulder wall.

[6] As part of the German Kunst am Bau scheme the School hosts two artworks, Feuer & Flamme by the sculptor, from Bruno Wank,[7] and Stefan Wischnewski's Auf die Plätze.