The former Bradbourne site was selected for the new academy. This had to be a sensitive development as the site lies right at the edge of the metropolitan Green Belt. The location of the new building was been selected to respect the overall use pattern of the site, and to enable construction whilst the existing buildings remained in use. The site had an existing building footprint of to which would be added – which makes up 8% of the total site area. There is of general recreational space with of sports pitches and viewing areas. There is of landscaping and of parking and service roadways. To the north of the three-storey new building are two sports halls and the music teaching accommodation. To the south set at an angle that follows the contours of the site are the specialist classrooms, toilets and office space. Art has the top floor, science has the middle floor and construction and technology on the ground floor. General classrooms are in the existing building. The sites of the previous schools were used during the construction of the new Academy buildings which weren't completed until 2015. On merger, not all of the students from Wildernesse moved over immediately; the merger of students was only completed in September 2011. Since then, the site at Knole East has been used to site Trinity Free School, Sevenoaks and Weald of Kent Grammar School Annex.
Academics
The school is currently rated 'Good'. It praises the management, governors and teachers for their ambition, vision and ability, suggestingfurther work on individual targeted questions may be a way to improve the students attention and attendance.
Previous schools
The Wildernesse School was a single sexhigh School for boys aged eleven to nineteen. It had Specialist School status for Mathematics and Computing. Other than the English motto taken from a letter to Sir Philip Sidney from his father, the school had a Latin motto: Non Nobis Solum. The school closed in July 2010, becoming part of the Knole Academy at the start of the autumn term in September 2010. The Bradbourne School was a girls 11–18, high school with a 6th form that hosted about 860 students. It closed in 2010.
