Located at Alveston, South Gloucestershire, it is situated on the B3561 on the outskirts of the south-west of the village.

[1] The modern-day school operates a house system, whereby students are divided up into four houses, which are named after old English words for woodland and thus pick up the theme of ‘wood’ in Marlwood, the school site at one time being woodland belonging to the Marlwood estate.

[3] Marlwood School converted to academy status on 1 November 2014 and is now independent of local authority control.

However, the school continues to coordinate with South Gloucestershire Council for admissions.

[4] The head explained the impossible nature of improving a school, with declining numbers, a then poor Ofsted judgement and annual cuts to an inadequate budget.