The school was located on a 54 acre site and had residential facilities to house male students aged 11 to 16.
[5] On 1 September 2006 the Jameah Islameah school was searched by up to a hundred police officers[6] as part of their operations, although no arrests were made.
[7] The local Sussex Police held a cordon around the site for 24 days in an operation that cost them over one million pounds.
[9] On the evening of 2 September over 40 police officers entered a south London halal Chinese restaurant called The Bridge to China Town and, after talking to customers for over an hour, arrested twelve on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
In the 1920s it later became St Joseph's College, a Roman Catholic Junior Seminary until 1970, before being converted into a ballet school.
Many famous names from the world of ballet were associated with the school, including Eunice Bartell, Pearl Gaden, Anna Lendrum, Hans Meister and Laverne Meyer.