Despite officially being a part of Welton, most of the school grounds are in the civil parish of Dunholme.

[3] The school was opened as a secondary modern in 1952 on the site of RAF Dunholme Lodge, a Second World War Bomber Command station, which had been bought for £600 in 1946 by the Reverend William Farr, vicar of Welton.

[4] The school was officially opened on Tuesday 3 May 1960, by the headmaster of Oakham School, John Buchanan, with a dedication by the Bishop of Lincoln, Kenneth Riches, with Chairman of Lindsey County Council Lt-Col Weston Cracroft-Amcotts, of Kettlethorpe Hall, and the architect Sam Scorer, who designed St John the Baptist's Church, Ermine, Lincoln around the same time.

[8] The school acquired comprehensive status in 1972, whilst Brian Sawyer was the headmaster.

The Queen flew into RAF Waddington at 11.25am in the morning, to open the new University of Lincoln, visiting the school in the afternoon, for the new £500,000 sixth form block.

[citation needed] On the early morning of Sunday 24 May 1992, a fire destroyed the science block.

A 15 year old was convicted of arson in early March 1993; the teenagers acquired the plan from watching the 1989 film Heathers.

Technicians at the BBC could not make any repairs, so music was played for the last fifteen minutes.

Helen Brittain, Head of History, received the 2008 Guardian award for teacher of the year at the East Midlands Conference Centre at the University of Nottingham.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited the school in October 1996 to open a new humanities building, named after Joseph Banks.

The project aims to create a museum to celebrate and preserve the history of RAF Dunholme Lodge, which inhabited the site before the school opened.

Foundations of many of the old RAF buildings were discovered in William Farr Wood behind the school, planned to be used for an interpretive trail, with help from a woodland management team.