It was named the ‘West Midlands State Secondary School of the Year’ in 2020 by the Sunday Times and the number one school in Shropshire, number 65 in the UK, in the Sunday Times Parent Power Guide 2025.

Until the establishment of Newport Girls' High School and despite the long-established Adams' Grammar School providing boys' education, the town and its satellite villages had no publicly-funded secondary education for girls.

This was designed by the Committee's architect George Henry Bailey (1856 or 1857-1930) who had practiced in London before moving to Shropshire in 1910.

[14] Its neo-Georgian front with white painted sash windows, stone window reveals and brick facing, alongside original wooden entrance doors and internal sky lantern in the main entrance hall, are comparable to other surviving commissions of this period, particularly surviving buildings at Wombridge Infants' School, Oakengates, Weston Rhyn Primary School (the brick later rendered), Maesbury Primary School (closed 2012), Walker Technical College (now residential) and Harlescott Junior School.

[15] The main facade were built using Lilleshall common bricks, with cornices of Lilleshall seconds red, although there was criticism within the Committee during building that these bricks were of insufficient quality and the same as being used in local coal mines.