Its popularity and growth led to its relocation in 1928 on a larger site in Tulse Hill, in the South London borough of Lambeth, England.

[1] Following the school's closure because of declining enrolment, it was announced that the building would become a youth hub called Oasis St Martin's Village.

[2] Those who ran the parish at the time, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, were considered radical for their notion that there should be a local school for girls as well as boys.

St Martins' new buildings were officially opened by the then Duchess of York, wife of the future King George VI, better known in later decades as the Queen Mother.

[4] In the 21st century, an estimated 36% of children in St Martin's catchment area received free school meals, and a high percentage were from lone-parent families.

Almost 90% of the school's pupils were of Caribbean or African extraction, with an estimated 27% speaking English as an additional language.