 The school was a larger than the average-sized secondary school with approximately 1458 pupils on roll, including 500 pupils in the sixth form.It was significantly oversubscribed with over 600 applications in 2013 for 190 places.It has specialist status in music and modern foreign languages; 150 places are offered to foundation (Christian) applicants, 30 to applicants who satisfied the criteria for world faith and ten places were offered to students with an aptitude for music.