The college has 9 buildings and 5 campuses around London and Essex: Redbridge (Ilford and Chadwell Heath), Tower Hamlets (Poplar and Arbour Square), Hackney, Epping Forest (Debden) and Havering (Ardleigh Green, Rainham and Hornchurch).

[3] The largest building of the Tower Hamlets campus is on Poplar High Street, about 700 m north of Canary Wharf; the others are at Arbour Square, Bethnal Green and the TowerSkills on East India Dock Road.

The college is housed in the former building of the School of Marine Engineering and Navigation established by the London County Council opened in 1906.

It is named after the UK's post-war prime minister Clement Attlee who was committed to positive social change and opportunity for all.

The impressive sports centre was used as a training camp for basketball during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The modern version of the term should also be distinguished from previous Hackney Colleges: Both of these merged in 1900, becoming the University of London's first Faculty of Theology.

The Epping Forest campus is located in Borders Lane in Debden, a suburb of Loughton.

Built on the site of Dury Falls Secondary School, it opened in September 1991, and educates full-time students from the ages of 16 to 19.

The college offers a wide range of subjects, in A-level, BTEC and diploma formats, amongst others.