The school was set up by the Rigby Education Trust,[8] a single-academy trust set up in partnership between the Lancaster University and Cardinal Newman College for the purpose of opening and operating the school.

[9] It opened to students in September 2022[10] and is located in a £8.5 million school building on London Road, Preston,[6][3] and is the first purpose-built specialist Maths School in the UK.

[11] The school is highly selective, with prospective students expected to have GCSE mathematics qualification at grade 8 or 9 and required to sit an admissions assessment.

In addition, students may select a fourth subject from those three, or choose any other A-level subject to be taught at Cardinal Newman College, which is located less than half a mile from the school site.

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