They had arrived from Faversham, Kent with fourteen young evacuees and set up a school.

The School was expanded over both sites in the 1950s and 1960s; however by the early 1980s, a decline in vocations made the Sisters feel the need to focus their now more limited resources elsewhere in the world.

In 1996 the school became fully co-educational, after the appointment of Nuala Shepley as Head Mistress in 1992.

In 2011, Nuala Shepley retired and Richard Bool (formerly of Ardingly College and Sherborne) was appointed as the new Headmaster.

Lingfield has four School Houses, originally named after the Saints and renamed in September 2013 to Bell, Clubb, Higgins and Yeates as a mark of respect and gratitude to the four original Trustees who created the charitable trust after the Notre Dame Sisters.