The school does not comply with Department for Education guidance on what academies should publish about the pupils’ performance in their most recent examinations and an evaluation of the impact of the school’s use of the pupil premium and catch-up funding. The school does not meet requirements on the publication of information about pupil premium and catch-up government funding on its website. The school has been sponsored by Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust since it converted to become an academy in 2013. The principal at the previous inspection left his post in August of this year. The new principal took up his position in September 2016. The school is smaller than the average-sized secondary school. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is almost twice the national average.