The school is well resourced with modern facilities which include a learning support centre, a gymnasium, a music and drama suite with multiple studio rooms, a suite of computers and VLN facilities in the library, an attractive sporting environment with multiple sports grounds, and two computer classrooms outfitted with an extensive library of resources relating to digital technology.

A new food technology/hospitality facility was commissioned in 2006 and has since been completed along with a dance studio as part of a major gymnasium refit.

The school opened on 3 February 1970, although some of the buildings were not yet complete or painted, and the playing fields were bare earth with stones and rocks.

The opening ceremony was not held until 17 July 1970, and the Minister of Education, Brian Talboys, was unable to attend and a replacement speaker was hastily organised.

The school magazine, then called Teamhar Leabhar (Gaelic for The Book of Tara), published its first issue.