Refurbishment of the premises, as part of the Peterborough Secondary School Review, increased the capacity by one form of entry in each year group, with a similar increase in the sixth form, amounting to around an extra 175 places.

[1] The school was officially opened by Jack Hunt, chairman of the Education Committee of the then Huntingdon and Peterborough County Council, after whom it is named.

Following a successful application to the then Department for Education and Skills, Beacon status was granted for a further three years with effect from September 2002.

[6] On 16 January 2012, the school received a hoax call stating that a bomb had been planted on the premises.

It is notably the only secondary school in that is a part of the Peterborough Keys Academies Trust (PKAT) [8] Jack Hunt Pool is an 82 feet (25 m) dual-use facility, built on the premises but open to the general public.