On reorganization of education in the city in 1926, the school catered for 350 girls aged 11 and over.

Further changes in 1944 turned the school into a secondary modern, which in 1951 became voluntary controlled.

Built for 480 pupils, the school was then extended to accommodate 800 places.

[4] From September 2018 the two schools operated as a single mixed school called Wyvern St Edmund's, pooling their leadership, staff and buildings, although retaining their separate legal identities.

[4] In September 2022 the two schools formally and legally amalgamated as Wyvern St Edmund's.