school was initially designated as a "Specialist Visual Arts College", but was reclassified to Academy status in August 2012. An Ofsted inspection in February 2014 rated the school as "Good", stating that pupils were making "strong progress", and that the "teaching standard was good". A new two-storey building was constructed for an additional 240 pupils in 2014 with the inauguration of a sixth form at the school in 2014, in line with Richmond Borough Council's secondary school education policy. In the 2015 year school leaving examinations the school exceeded its target results, however concerns were raised with the fact that around 40% of the school's sixth form AS-level examinees had failed to achieve pass grades in the subjects of Mathematics and Biology. John Wilkinson the School's newly appointed Headteacher addressed the concerns by stating that the results in this regard had under-performed because the Biology syllabus needed to be restructured, and the Mathematics results had been impaired by the admission of sixth-form students with lower GCSE grades than was standard educational practice, citing the need for schools to "be brave" in such matters, and not play safe in pursuance of short-term results statistics. In September 2017 on his appointment to the post of Chief Executive of the Richmond West Schools' Trust, John Wilkinson was re-designated as the Teddington School's "Executive Headteacher", with Kathy Pacey being appointed as its new "Head of School". In February 2018 Ofsted praised the functioning of the school's sixth form, but rated Teddington School otherwise as "Requiring Improvement", citing after an inspection in January 2018 concerns with: the main school's management; aspects of its quality of teaching - which was described as generally "not good enough"; pupils being inattentive and pettily disruptive in some classes; that the school's internal administrative self-evaluation reporting had been found to be inaccurate to the degree that it created an overly generous impression of the school's working state, and a Governing body that was not properly executing its role of independent scrutiny of the school's managerial authority, to which it had become too close. Following the Ofsted findings the Chair of Governors resigned her post with immediate effect. In September 2018 the Government's Education and Skills Funding Agency issued Teddington School with a formal "Financial Notice to Improve" due to failing to set a balanced budget, and concerns over its financial control. The school became part of the Bourne Education Trust