The school is fortunate in its site, a beautiful 50 acre expanse next to the University of Birmingham, which it shares with King Edward's High School for Girls. Few, if any, day schools in this country enjoy such space and quality of buildings, and yet we are less then three miles from the city centre.

The core of the school's buildings was built in the late 1930s when the school moved from its original site in New Street, Birmingham. This design was the work of Holland Hobbiss, who was a former pupil of the school. These buildings have proved to be of lasting value, but there have also been substantial developments over the years: in particular, provision for PE was increased, a Music School with a 200-seater Concert Hall was built in the late 1960s, Design & Technology and Art now have their own domain and the provision for science, for IT and for the Library has expanded significantly.

The school's sporting facilities are also extensive. For indoor sport, the school has one large sports hall, two gymnasia, three squash courts, an indoor 25 metre swimming pool and a weight-training room. For outdoor sports, we have six Eton Fives Courts, shared use-with King Edward's High School for Girls-of two newly refurbished hockey astro pitches, a small astro pitch for hockey, football and tennis, and enough space in front of the school's main buildings for 5 rugby pitches in the winter and three cricket grounds in the summer. In addition, the school owns extensive land across the Bristol Road where it has the 1st XI cricket pitch, the 1st XV rugby pitch, an athletics track and tennis courts.

However, there are very extensive plans to develop still further these facilities. The first phase of this development is to build, in conjunction with King Edward's High School for Girls, a Performing Arts Centre that will provide a 425-seater Concert Hall, a 120-seater Drama Studio and further extensive provision for the teaching, rehearsal and practice of music and dance. The Performing Arts Centre will be called the Paul and Jill Ruddock Performing Arts Centre in recognition of the very substantial donation from Mr and Mrs Ruddock: Paul is a former pupil of the school. The design of this building is already advanced and building will start in July 2010 with the intention that it should be completed by early 2012. The second phase is to build an integrated sports centre alongside the swimming pool to increase substantially the provision for indoor sport of all kinds from basketball to fitness training to table tennis.