Kate White, the current headteacher, assumed Hutchings' position in September 2012.

It is situated north of the A386, west of the now-closed Plymouth City Airport.

In 1965 a new school building was completed on the grounds of the convent at Looseleigh Lane in Derriford.

Notre Dame had much building work done in the academic year 2007/8: among this was a large professional sports hall, a library and a five-classroom block for history and geography named Stang Block after Dorothy Stang.

[2] The average result at the school for A level in 2019 was C−, just below the Plymouth and England figures.