It caters to academic years 7-11 (ages 11–16) and has over 1050 students on roll.

It operated at a girls school on this site, with a junior house in Shelly Road between 1918 and 1930,[3] apart from an evacuation to New Ollerton, Nottinghamshire in 1941,[3] until it became a girls' grammar school under the changes of the Education Act 1944.

It remained as a grammar school until the local authority reorganised provision in the town along three-tier comprehensive lines in 1973, when it became a girls' comprehensive high school for students aged 12 to 16.

From 2015 it became a standard secondary school accepting its first cohort of Year 7 students since the 1973 reorganisation following the change in the age of transfer in Worthing.

[6] The school has been rated "good" with outstanding areas on its previous OFSTED inspection in April 2016.