Bicester Community College
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| Motto | Aspire and Achieve |
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| Established | 1966 |
| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Mr Tony Rushworth |
| Location |
Queen's Avenue Bicester Oxfordshire OX26 2NS England 51°54′03″N 1°09′39″W / 51.900813°N 1.160806°WCoordinates: 51°54′03″N 1°09′39″W / 51.900813°N 1.160806°W |
| Local authority | Oxfordshire |
| DfE number | 931/4011 |
| DfE URN | 142024 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 989 (May 2014) |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | Burgundy |
| Website | The Bicester School |
The Bicester School (previously Bicester Community College) is a mixed, multi-heritage, secondary school, with around 963 students (including a sixth form). It is situated in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, and occupies a 32-acre (130,000 m2) site leading off Queens Avenue.
The school's sports facilities are used by Bicester Athletic Club, which has been awarded National Lottery funding to add all‑weather surfaces to the sports field's jumping and throwing event areas.
The Bicester School was formed as a new comprehensive school in 1966. It was created by the merger of Highfield Secondary Modern School and Bicester Grammar School, who had shared the current site since 1963. Bicester Grammar School had previously been situated at the junction of London Road and Launton Road.
The school has been a Government-designated specialist Technology College since 1998. In May 2011 Bicester Community College received the Most Improved Award from the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) for improving its GCSE results by 20 percentage points from 2007–2010. The college received congratulations for significantly improving its 5+ A*–C results including GCSE English and Mathematics.
At the previous inspection in October 2010 the 963-pupil school was deemed satisfactory. The latest Ofsted inspection that took place on 6 and 7 December in 2012 has revealed that Bicester Community College, overall, falls under the inadequate category. Inadequate is the lowest of all four tiers ranked by Ofsted, with the other tiers being "Requires improvement" ( previously "Satisfactory"), "Good" and "Outstanding."
Achievement of pupils, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils and leadership and management were deemed level four on the scale of one to four, with four being the worst category (inadequate). Principal Jason Clarke has responded to the report, stating that "[the school is] very disappointed by the outcome of the inspection and the impact it may have on hard work undertaken since the last inspection two years ago. The report acknowledges the recent positive impact of many initiatives currently in place and under way. My greatest disappointment is the grade for behaviour, which does not truly reflect the positive attitude and pride the vast majority of our students have for their school."
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