On Monday 7 June 2021 the school announced it was closing at the end of the summer term.

[3] In March 2012 the board of governors announced the decision to extend the 11+ intake to boys beginning in September 2013 as a step towards coeducation.

The Grange was a primary building located near to the main school, next to the Birtill Hall (named after a previous Head Teacher.)

On 8 June the school announced that it remained "significantly loss-making", a situation made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic Valerie Domleo – physicist, rally co-driver and farmer Alex Hamilton – BBC Presenter and weather presenter Kate Oates – British television producer, known for her work on the soap operas The Archers, Emmerdale, and Coronation Street.

Squash Falconer – adventurer, mountaineer, motivational speaker and presenter Sidney Roberts Stevenson – architect Former pupils are entitled membership of the Ockbrook School Leavers' Association (OSLA).