In 2009, Ofsted listed Wood Green as one of 12 outstanding schools serving disadvantaged communities.

[1] The head teacher is James Topham, who started the role in September 2014, taking over from Pank Patel.

Pank succeeded the retiring Enid Bibby, who had been head teacher for eight years and became a dame in 2004 following a significant increase in academic results at the school during her tenure.

It was a grammar school that opened in Wood Green House, St. Paul's Road in 1924 under the headship of C. H. S. Kipping.

In 2023 the school was found to have some potentially structurally unsound classrooms due to the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete as a building material.