Type Academy DfE URN 125767 Tables Ages 11–18 Gender Mixed-sex education | Headteacher Mr Andy Perry Ofsted Reports Phone +44 1926 493805 Number of students 1,700 | |
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Location Myton Road
Warwick
Warwickshire
CV34 6PJ
England Address Myton Rd, Warwick CV34 6PJ, UK Similar North Leamingt School, Venues and Events at Warwic, Aylesford School, Kenilworth School, King's High School Profiles | ||
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Myton School is an 11–18 coeducational comprehensive school. Most students live locally, although the school attracts students from outside the priority area. The school is located on Myton Road in the town of Warwick in Warwickshire, England. The history of the school in its current form dates from 1968. As of January 2015 the school has around 1,700 students.
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History
The school started life as Warwick School, a mixed-sex, non-selective secondary school which was opened in 1954. In 1959 Oken became Oken High School for Boys when the girls were transferred to the newly established Beauchamp High School for Girls. The two single-sex schools had each moved to the site that Myton School presently occupies and they were amalgamated in 1968. Since then the school has grown substantially as the size of each school year has increased, 11-year-olds were admitted for the first time in 1996 (when Warwickshire changed its secondary school start date to a year earlier) and as the Sixth Form has grown in size. The school became a grant maintained school in 1992, and a foundation school after grant maintained status was abolished by the incoming Labour government in 1997. Under the government's school specialisation funding scheme it has become a specialist Science College. On 1 July 2011, the school became an academy.
Controversy
Myton School caused outrage in November 2015 from its decision to board up one of the most important murals of the artist Alan Sorrell. The School justified this act in a Newsletter under the Heading "Sorrell mural protected for future generations", saying "In the instance of our lower school reception, which acts as the main student entrance to the school, we felt that the whole area needed to be adapted to create a bright, engaging and stimulating entrance for our students." The unique mural has been covered by plastic boards with slogans such as Enthusiasm and zest, Self Control and, ironically, Curiosity. The mural has now been Listed Grade II.