It is situated near to the edge Clipstone village, Nottinghamshire (part of Newark and Sherwood District Council administrative area) but lies within Mansfield District Council's Newlands electoral ward and teaches young people from Clipstone and the Forest Town area of Mansfield.

[8] On Tuesday 8 September 1963 the school was visited by the missionary Gladys Aylward, who said that schoolchildren in Britain were too addicted to 'silly comics and stupid films'.

[10] 29 year old teacher Manuel Moreno was suspended in May 1974, appearing with his wife on the front page of the Nottingham Evening Post on 10 May 1974.

In 1989 a new headmaster, Bob Salisbury, was appointed who put in place a programme of improvements that lasted five years.

He believed his staff should progress like a cork along a stream, knowing that they were free to speed up, slow down or try a different route.

[15] The school appeared on the front page of Nottingham Evening Post on 12 January 1976, when a large fire had been discovered at 4am that morning.

The whole of the school records were destroyed, and a three-storey block, with cooking and needlework rooms, and biology and chemistry laboratories.

[3] In March 2013, Ofsted rated Garibaldi as a "good" school, with some aspects of "outstanding" teaching.