Pool Academy offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils.

The school is also the home ground of Duchy Hockey Club.

[3] In 2016, Dagmara Przybysz, a 16-year-old student of Pool Academy, was found hanged in the school's bathroom.

[4] During an inquest, testimony was reportedly received that she had suffered bullying over her Polish nationality.

[5] However the school had received no reports of racism [6] and the coroner recorded an open verdict concluding that there was no evidence of mental health issues “or any significant racism or bullying issues immediately prior to death" [6] In January 2019, the Department for Education (DfE) named it among the "Worst Schools In The Country.