This is a smaller than average school serving mainly the immediate local area which includes a substantial number of families in temporary accommodation. The vast majority of pupils are White British with a smaller than average percentage of pupils from minority ethnic groups. The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals is above average. The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs is above average. Most of these have moderate learning difficulties or behavioural, social and emotional difficulties. More pupils than usual enter or leave the school other than at the normal times and around one third of the school population changes each year. Since September 2009 the school has been part of a temporary soft federation with a nearby outstanding school under an executive head but a new substantive head has been appointed for September 2012. At the beginning of this term the school set up a breakfast and after-school club under the extended schools agenda. The school meets the current floor standard.