The school is fully co-educational and is proud of its strong academic traditions and past achievements, yet has a forward looking approach to the education of boys and girls in the 1990's. It provides a caring, yet disciplined community in which the needs of the individual are placed first.
It stands in a magnificent rural setting on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, being about five miles from Ingleborough. There is good access to the M6 at Lancaster (12 miles away) and both east and west coast railway lines.
A continuing building programme has ensured a full range of facilities, these include science laboratories, CDT centre, home economics and art rooms, computer centre, music school, swimming pool and a particularly fine new sports hall as well as the normal teaching rooms. There are three separate boarding houses each under the supervision of a married resident housemaster/housemistress and all fifth and sixth form pupils have individual study bedrooms. A refurbishment programme of all three houses was completed in July 1994.
There is a strong tradition of music, drama and games in the school and a full range of clubs and societies is available at lunch times, after school and throughout the weekend. Much use is made of the superb location of the school for field trips and outdoor pursuits and all pupils are encouraged to take part in The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme and community service.
The Nursery and Junior Department, taking children from age 3, has the advantage of being on a separate site yet with all the facilities of the main school on hand nearby.
The majority of fifth form pupils return into the sixth form to study 'A'-levels and then proceed to some form of higher education.
