 The school became an academy, sponsored by the College of West Anglia's CWA Academy Trust in September 2014 but following the College's withdrawal from school sponsorship in the summer of 2017 is now part of the Eastern Multi-Academy Trust.In July 2017 another critical Ofsted report judging the school to "require improvement" was followed by the resignation of its Principal, Craig Morrison.The history of the school dates to 1510 when former Lord Mayor of Lynn Thomas Thoresby (who began in his lifetime Thoresby College for thirteen chantry priests) established a provision in his will for a priest to teach six children ‘in grammar and song’.