The school has been judged "good" with "outstanding" in the behaviour and safety of pupils, by Ofsted in February 2014[citation needed].

It was originally housed in buildings in Union Street, Chorley which is now home to the public library.

This includes the west block, which was built in 1970s, and is currently used as history, music and ICT classrooms.

The first major building work was the extension of the north block, which added four more English classrooms and two photography rooms, which are currently named as N01, N02, N14, N15, N24 and N25.

In late 2020, the previous science block was renovated to create 8 new English classrooms named after influential authors throughout time.