Catering for around 360 boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 11, it is housed in the same building as its partner school, Hyde Park Infants.

[1] The school's catchment area extends across part of the suburbs of Plymouth including Mutley and Mannamead.

Hyde Park School is built on the site where, in the 1590s, Thornhill House stood, which was occupied by Sir Francis Drake.

After the incident the children continued lessons in local church halls and also shared half-day sessions with other schools – the boys with Montpelier and the girls with Laira Green.

In 1942, some returned to Hyde Park and a Nissen hut was erected in the front playground, it was used as a British Restaurant and then later as accommodation for the school.

[2] According to a short news item in The Times, the school was re-opened after the air raid damage by the Duke of Kent on 14 February 1942 as a social centre, the funds for which had been supplied by the British War Relief Society of America.

[2] That year, it was said that Hyde Park had the largest population of ethnic minority pupils among primary schools in Plymouth.

[11] 2005 saw a modernisation of the school as broadband internet access was introduced, every classroom received an interactive whiteboard,[12] and the old cloakroom was renovated into a new modern library.