 In the 1990s and early 2000s the school took an early opportunity to gain more independence from local authority control by becoming a grant-maintained school and then a foundation school.In 2010 the school applied for academy status using the Academies Act in order to remove itself from local authority control and avoid becoming co-educational, becoming an Academy in February 2011.Ultimately, under pressure from Bath and North East Somerset Council which offered to provide £1.85 million for conversion works, the school decided to become co-educational from 2012.