Classes were taught in the porch of St. Mary's Church in the Lace Market area of Nottingham.
In 1723, land that was given by William Thorpe on High Pavement in Weekday Cross was used and the school migrated there,[4] remaining there for over a century.
During the 1960s fund-raising was undertaken to acquire new property and to construct a purpose-built new school to allow for expansion including on-site sports fields.
Two decades later, a further status change took place with the school being awarded Technology College status by the Department for Education and Skills enabling the school to receive additional funding for development Science, Mathematics and Information Technology education.
In 2003, Bluecoat was "twinned" with,[6] and then later took over the site of Margaret Glen-Bott School in the nearby Wollaton area.
The Aspley Lane Campus gained a new building in 2006, as part of an extensive redevelopment project.
Surrounded by these were new classrooms, dedicated to IT, music, social sciences, modern foreign languages and design technology.
After construction was completed and owing to unexpected costs, the school was approximately £2.5 million in debt.
On 4 February 2008, Mr Max R Kay resigned from his position as the school's long-standing headteacher and principal,[8] following a fifteen-month-long suspension and investigation relating to a financial probe regarding publicly funded building projects; [9] [10] and the confirmed presence of Legionnaires' disease.
Owing to a lack of funds, the plans were scrapped and work went underway to improve the Wollaton site instead.
[13] In September 2013, expansion projects totalling approximately £14 million started on the Wollaton Park Campus.
In November 2014, following prolonged growth in student numbers, a £1.4 million two-storey extension was begun to the existing Sixth Form building at Aspley Lane Campus.
Completed in August 2015, the extension provided new facilities including a new lecture theatre, canteen and kitchen, as well as additional classrooms and self-study areas, enabling bringing student numbers to rise over 500.
In February 2018, building work commenced at Bluecoat Aspley Academy with the construction of a "new Science block" due for completion in January 2019.
Bluecoat Aspley Academy has space for fourteen tennis courts, two hard play areas, two full size pitches and one athletics track.
There is a library, science labs, Food Preparation room and a Drama Studio with professional lighting, all of which is accessible to students.
Mathematics, English, sciences, Religious Education and core physical educations remain compulsory for the rest of the students' school life, whereas PSHE only remains compulsory for the first year of the students' GCSE life (Year 9).
Also taught is the DiDA (Diploma in Digital Applications) qualification in Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Each house has its own coloured tie: Every morning, the form group meets to take the register and inform the students of notices.
Once the BSF redevelopment began Cornerstone relocated to a new, purpose-built church on the site of the old MFI building on castle boulevard.
In 2015, Jermain Jackman visited and performed at the Aspley site to promote the National Citizen Service, or NCS, programme.
For many years the school operated on a two-week timetable to balance mre effectively the time spent on minority subjects.
In the academic year 2010–2011, 86% of students at the Nottingham Bluecoat School (both campuses) received A*-C GCSE results.
All students are expected to wear the uniform smartly at all times with ties and top buttons done up and shirts tucked in.
They are allowed to wear what they wish as long as it is "smart casual" and "in keeping with a professional and educational environment and the Christian values of the school".