From then on the school grew apace. Girls were admitted in 1908 but left in 1921 with the opening of Spalding High School. The number of boys had now increased to 140 and new buildings were needed. These came in sizeable chunks in 1927, 1939, 1968, 1974, 1981 and, with a new Sports Hall and classroom block, in 1993. The school gained pupils from Moulton Grammar School which closed in 1939, and was given Voluntary Aided status after the 1944 Education Act, a degree of independence it has retained to this day despite all the political machinations of the last thirty years. By 1987 the number of pupils had risen to 642 and at the end of the millennium stood at 869. In 2006 it stands at 937..

Despite all the pressures it has remained a grammar school. In 1988 to celebrate the quatercentenary a commemorative window was dedicated in the Parish Church, where the school had its home for nearly 300 years.

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