 As of September 2012, the school has an enrolment of 140 pupils.The school opened as St. John's High School in September 1965 as a co-educational school for boys and girls aged 11 to 15 years old, which increased to 16 with the raising of the compulsory schooling age in 1973.The school was bombed by the UVF on 18 March 1973, causing extensive damage.