 In 1968 the school had 130 boarders, and 25 day boys "taken for the first two years".In 1979 The St Edmund's School Charitable Trust was formed to help take the school forward, with Richard Saunders, an old boy, becoming its first Chairman of Governors.For most of its existence St Edmund's was for boys only, however, with the first girls being admitted in 2008, the school is now co-educational.