The school is smaller than the average-sized secondary school. There are more boys than girls. About three-quarters of the students are White British with an average proportion of students from minority ethnic backgrounds. The largest group is of Black African heritage with very small proportions from many other heritages. A smaller than average proportion of students speak English as an additional language but none are at an early stage of learning English. A well below average proportion of students receive support through the pupil premium, which provides additional government funding for specific groups, including looked after children and students known to be eligible for free school meals. The school has only a very few looked after children. The proportion of disabled students and those with special educational needs supported through school action is average. The proportion of students supported at school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is also average. The most common needs relate to students needing support for speech, language and communication or for those on the autistic spectrum. A very small number of students are eligible for Year 7 catch-up funding, which is for students who did not achieve the expected Level 4 in reading or mathematics at the end of Key Stage 2. The school uses alternative off-site education provision for two days a week for a very few students following civil engineering and hair and beauty courses at Crown Woods School and Shooters Hill Further Education College. Practically all students take GCSE English and mathematics early and the most-able linguists take French or Spanish early. The school meets the government’s current floor standard, which sets the minimum expectations for students’ attainment and progress. The school has been the Greenwich champion in technology and public speaking and the dance group has performed at Sadler’s Wells and the Southbank Centre. Since June 2013, the school has been in a partnership arrangement leading an 11–18 Catholic school in Dover.