In 2007, Rob Gibson, the (former) headteacher of The Ridings High School was invited by the DCSF to consider a move to academy status as the Lead (non-financial) sponsor in a hard federation, incorporating King Edmund Community School in Yate.

[3] In September 2021, Natalie Wilcox took over as Headteacher after a year as Associate Head teacher, working alongside Isabel Ambrose.

[citation needed] The consultation period ended in February 2009, and the local council agreed that the two schools would close and reopen in August 2009 as academies.

Since becoming an Academy in 2009, £16 million has been invested in replacing the old buildings of King Edmund Community School.

[5] It now has a 60-seat STEM theatre and a 240-seat auditorium, photography dark room, all-day canteen, fitness gym, large sports hall, dance studio, four tennis courts and a floodlit all-weather pitch.