The school was awarded specialist Sports College status in September 2010.

[2] Previously a community school administered by Norfolk County Council, in September 2018 Old Buckenham High School converted to academy status and is now sponsored by the Sapentia Educational Trust.

[3] When Ofsted visited in 2015 it found a smaller than average 11–16 comprehensive school serving a rural area of Norfolk.

The proportion of students for whom English is an additional language was very low: there were few disadvantaged students entitled or eligible for free school meals.

The school met the government’s floor standards for students’ attainment and progress.