[2] King's School Bruton once owned a copy of Magna Carta dating from 1297, which it sold to the Australian Government in 1952 for £12,500.

On 28 March 2019, to mark the school's quincentenary, King's hosted Queen Elizabeth II during a wider Royal visit to the West Country.

[5] In 1947, following World War II, King's Bruton Junior School moved to a site approximately 10 miles South West at Hazlegrove House to satisfy increasing demand for places.

Unfortunately, with an expected pupil roll of 45 in September 2022 (down on 199 in 2018), the foundation deemed it unviable to continue operations, and in May 2022 announced that the school would close at the end of the 2021/22 academic year.

In June 2024 it was announced that Matt Radley, second master of Blundell's School, would be the next headmaster of King's Bruton from September 2025.