The acting headteacher was Allan Cottle (took over from Michelle Prentice in February 2024) at the time of the Ofsted inspection report in 2024 which described the school's overall effectiveness as inadequate.

The school is a few hundred metres south-west of junction one of the M3; the same, south, of the Shepperton Branch Line, with pavements to Upper Halliford and Sunbury stations; and somewhat less, west, of the 216 and 235 bus routes.

In 1881 this house, as Mount Pleasant, which had earlier been a private school, was bought by the Good Templars and Temperance (educational) Orphanage[2] - a time in the height of Victorian Britain when purchase by a broad range of well-benefacted charities became possible.

[3][4] The orphanage became conspicuously under-used after the passage of de-institutionalising legislation, discouraging institutions in favour of foster care in the United Kingdom and adoption, in the early 20th century; given how local population and housing had grown as industry and commuting expanded.

From January to June pupils from year 10 attend selection trials, before undergoing rigorous training in the school and at Wimbledon.