 Lampton School used to be known as Spring Grove Grammar School, a grammar school before being converted to a comprehensive.The school gained its Humanities Specialist status in 2003, a designation which enabled the building of the Language and Learning Zone (LLZ), a multi-media and Information and communication technologies suite situated at the western end of the Spring Grove building.In recent years an ultra-modern Sixth Form Block resembling a barn (and fondly nicknamed thus) was constructed on what used to be a rather health and safety prone hockey gravel pit.