It is in Shiphay, south of Torbay Hospital, not far from the A3022 and Torre railway station and next to Torquay Girls Grammar School.

The six houses were previously named after Elizabethan sailors, which had seen criticism in 2020 over their links to the slave trade,[8] and were renamed after locations in Devon in 2021.

The school has held specialist languages status for a number of years and has recently been awarded a second specialism in business and enterprise education.

[20] The astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore was a patron of the school and maintained close ties – Ralegh House performed the premiere of his operetta Galileo in the late 1990s.

The current presenter of the BBC television programme "The Sky at Night" Chris Lintott, who lectures at Oxford University, was also a student at the school.