From September 2006 the school has been full with pupils from Years 7 - 13 including a large sixth form.

[1] Highlands School has four houses, Willow, Beech, Oak and Rowan.

Since the sixth form opened in September 2005, the first year of IB students took their exams in 2007, and 55% failed.

[2] Bruce Goddard, the headteacher at the time, was quoted as saying, "In some cases we are currently lodging appeals against this."

The school has since decided to drop the IB and switch to A-levels.