The school served pupils aged 11 to 16 before it closed at the end of 2009.
[1] The school used a secondary modern style admissions procedure and had a capacity for 438 pupils.
[2] It was built by Foster's of Wharf Road in Grantham.
It opened in January 1963, and officially opened on Tuesday 21 May 1963 by James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster, the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, with the Bishop of Grantham, Anthony Otter.
The school had meant to be opened by the government minister Sir Chris Chataway.