It is next to The Lady Eleanor Holles School for girls, with which it co-operates in a number of co-curricular activities and shares several classes, clubs, facilities (including a swimming pool) and a coach service.

[1] To mark this early history, Founders' Day is celebrated by the school towards the end of each academic year.

This was as a result of a commission established to enquire into the fate of Tudor charities that had disappeared for various reasons.

However, in the spirit of compromise and through the generosity of the then legal owner of the properties, Nicholas Pigeon, the school was re-endowed.

The new school buildings cost £8,000 and were built in the Elizabethan Tudor style to accommodate 125 day boys and 25 boarders.