It operates across two buildings and offers all streams of the Dutch secondary education system, including VMBO, HAVO, and VWO (Atheneum and Gymnasium).
The school is named after Saint Martin of Tours (Dutch: Sint-Maarten), who represents the values of helping and sharing.
The following subjects are taught (though the specific curriculum varies depending on the chosen educational stream): The school features a room called the "Macademie," equipped with a couple of Mac computers.
In 2009, the paper's editors attended this event, where Yvonne Doornduyn, a political journalist and jury member, remarked: "Palet has a good combination of strong layout and quality content."
The newspaper is published three to five times a year and covers a range of subjects, such as discrimination, politics, and current events, as well as lighter topics like trends, school information, and leisure activities.