 The school itself is named after Saint Martín de Porres, a Dominican saint from Lima in Peru.In 1963 Saint Martin's became a Voluntary Aided Co-ed Catholic School and in 2014 it converted to an Academy, part of the St Dominic's Multi-Academy Trust.This Trust was incorporated into the St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Mutli-Academy Trust in 2018, a federation incorporating all the state funded Catholic Schools in Leicestershire.