The school attracted national media attention in 2002, when then-headteacher David Wilmot recruited teachers at a nearby Sainsbury's supermarket. He told The Daily Telegraph that he had struggled to recruit and retain newly qualified teachers.[1] The recruitment crisis was highlighted as a "major concern" in an OFSTED report later that year.[2] The school had an OFSTED inspection in 2007 and was reported as a "good school". During an additional inspection in music during October 2008, the school was graded "good" for music provision.[3] Later, in 2011, the school was rated "outstanding" by OFSTED [4] and subsequently converted to an academy.[5] In 2019, the school was rated as "good" overall by OFSTED.[6]
In 2018, a teacher at the school was banned from the profession after sending shirtless photos of himself to a pupil at a different nearby school.[7][8]
