The initial plan was moving school to an older building located on North Wharf Road for its first term and then moving into a new building located on Maryland's Road.

However, work on the new building was delayed multiple times, forcing the school to stay at North Wharf Road for a year before finally moving to the new and current site in April 2007.

"[7] The academy's second Ofsted report and first full inspection in 2009 showed that while there was an improvement in the grades of students, there was a lack of consistency within the subjects.

[9] In 2007, GCSE results showed that only 25% of students managed to get 5 or more A*–C grades including English and Maths.

[11] In August 2018 at GCSE level 80% of students at the academy gained at least a grade 4 in English and Maths.