[4] As well as state funding, the school receives a grant annually from HSBC and other corporate donors, and thus is able to offer sports and recreation activities, clubs, societies, a lecture programme and an outreach program to complement academic studies.

[2] The school offers an academic A-Level curriculum designed to facilitate student's entry on to competitive degree courses at leading universities.

Conditional offers of places are made on the basis of student's predicted GCSE results.

[11] In March 2022 the school appointed an external investigator to investigate the complaint,[12] concluding that there is no evidence that the LAE or any of its staff, either past or serving, discriminated against Muslim students and finds that the School’s Governing Board acted appropriately and transparently in its decision to discontinue multi-faith facilities at LAE in September 2015.

Independent from the campaign the school has facilitated the use of on-site space for students wishing to pray.