It is located in the Bermondsey area of the London Borough of Southwark, England.

It is one of Britain's largest state schools for children with autism, and has a high staff to student ratio.

The school occupies an old-fashioned red-brick building behind which is a landscaped garden through which flows an artificial stream.

[1] There are 100 pupils aged between 11 and 19, both boys and girls, with a range of autism spectrum disorders between severe and high-functioning.

[3] A Channel 4 documentary Make Me Normal, broadcast on 2 June 2005, was filmed at the school.