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St Michael's Catholic School, High Wycombe

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Established
  
1973

Headteacher
  
Garret Fay

Phone
  
+44 1494 535196

Religion
  
Roman Catholic

DfE URN
  
110516 Tables

Colors
  
Black, Sky Blue

Type
  
Voluntary aided school all through

Location
  
Daws Hill Lane High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP11 1PW England

Address
  
Daws Hill Ln, High Wycombe HP11 1PW, UK

Local authority
  
Buckinghamshire County Council

Motto
  
"Living in the Light of the Gospel"

St Michael's Catholic School is a Catholic all-through voluntary aided school located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The school has 1124 pupils and takes children from the age of 3 through to the age of 19 years.

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In February 2017, it was announced that the school was proposing for the creation of a satellite school at the Aylesbury Vale Academy's former site in neighbouring Aylesbury due to lack of space and population increase predictions. If the proposals go ahead, the school is expected to open in September 2018 with a Year 7 intake of 120 students. The schools catchment area for many years has included Aylesbury and surrounding areas, which has a high proportion of baptised Catholics.

History

Founded in 1973 as St Bernard's Catholic School as a satelite of St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School in Slough in 2011 it amalgamated with neighbouring St Augustine's Catholic Primary School creating an all-through school called St Augustine's and St Bernard's Catholic School.

According to the BBC's Domesday Project, in 1986 the school has 840 pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 years. The buildings were reported to have been 10 years old at the time in front of extensive playing fields on a site of 17 acres.

In September 2008, St Bernard's Catholic School was awarded specialist school status as a Science College, by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

In 2011 the school was among 494 schools nationwide praised by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust for its fast impriovement of GCSE results. The number of pupils getting five A* - C grades, including English and Maths, increased from 42 per cent in 2009 to 64 per cent in 2011.

From September 2012 the school stopped being called St Augustine's and St Bernard's Catholic School and is now known by its current name.

Houses

In the primary phase there are four houses, all named for the Four Evangelists:

In the secondary phase there are also four houses, each named instead for English Catholic martyrs:

References

St Michael's Catholic School, High Wycombe Wikipedia