In April 2021, a teacher at the school, Richard Glenn, was sacked from his role as head of sixth form and banned from teaching throughout the country after becoming drunk, threatening and taking pupils to a strip club during a school trip to San José, Costa Rica in July 2019.

[2] The Longridge estate was acquired, through his marriage, by Hubert Jerningham, who from 1881 to 1885 had been a Liberal Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed.

The principal building, erected as his stately home, at great cost, incorporated the very latest innovations including a hydraulic lift and gas lighting to all parts of the main house.

The portico is said to have been built for a visit of the Prince of Wales to make sure he did not get wet when alighting from his coach.

Lady Jerningham (d. 1902) had been Annie, daughter of E. Liddell, of Benton Park, and widow of C. T. Mather of Longridge, and her statue sits on the Elizabethan town walls in Berwick-upon-Tweed looking towards the distant school.