 In 2016, the school was rated as "inadequate" in an Ofsted inspection.It was closed and reopened in 2017 as Great Yarmouth Charter Academy, having been taken over by the Inspiration Trust, under the leadership of Barry Smith who introduced a new behaviour policy.A subsequent surprise inspection noted that before the new behaviour policy was introduced, a large number of pupils told the inspector that "they often felt unsafe at school", but that "During this unannounced inspection, all of the large number of pupils who spoke with inspectors said that they now feel safe at school".