In the most recent Ofsted inspection, the school was graded as "outstanding" in all areas.

[3] It now has over 1700 male and female pupils aged 11–18 (Years 7–13), with around 330 students in the sixth form.

[1] Initially the school was split between three different sites in the town, but in December 1986, a grant of £1.9M was awarded to enable all teaching to be carried out at a single location.

[4][5] Two new buildings were constructed at the Carlton Road site, officially opened in March 1990 by Ronald Bowlby, the Anglican Bishop of Southwark, and Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Arundel and Brighton.

[7] Starting in 2018, construction began to expand the school's capacity.