It is a sports college, as well as the second largest school in Calderdale, behind Trinity Academy, located in Sowerby Bridge.

Brooksbank grew up in Elland but left the town at the age of sixteen to become a haberdasher’s apprentice in London.

Charity Commissioners, who inspected the school in 1829, reported that forty children were attending and that the schoolmaster was being paid a salary of £70 a year.

[1] The school is on the west side of Elland, and is a five-minute walk from the town centre, and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north-west from the accessible M62 motorway.

Facilities include a sports hall, four tennis courts, three drama studios, a playing field, a 3G Football pitch and a gymnasium.