The school is an Academy, part of The Priory Learning Trust, and had 1,264 pupils aged 11 to 16 as of September 2015.

[1] Priory converted to an Academy Trust on 17 August 2011[2] The school was founded in September 1975, and moved to a purpose-built site during autumn 1977.

During the 1980s, the school ran an unusual timetable, blocking an entire half-year to take the same subject at the same time.

This timetable management was the subject of an Open University module and television programme.

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