Myton School

Myton School

Headteacher	Paul MacIntyre
Specialism	Science College
Location	Myton Road Warwick Warwickshire CV34 6PJ England
Local authority	Warwickshire
DfE URN	125767
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1,626
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Houses	Beauchamp, Leycester, Greville, Montgomery, Oken
Website	mytonschool.co.uk

Coordinates: 52°16′48″N 1°33′55″W / 52.2799°N 1.5654°W / 52.2799; -1.5654

Myton School is a secondary school 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 2010^[update] the school has 1,626 pupils.

History

The school started life as Oken High School, a mixed-sex, non-selective secondary school which was opened in 1954.^[1] In 1959 Oken became Oken High Scool for Boys when the girls were transferred to the newly established Beauchamp High Scool for Girls.^[1] 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.

Achievement

In 2008, 59.4% of A-Level candidates achieving A-C grades and 76% of GCSE candidates achieving 5 or more A*–C grades in 2008.^[2] In 2010, Myton School GCSE 78% of students obtained five A*-C grades, of which 67% include English and Maths. It also has major new plans for a sixth form centre to replace the current one which first opened in the 1990s and used as a drama studio until 2004. The school is to become an academy in September of 2011.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "The borough of Warwick: Public education". British History Online. University of London & History of Parliament Trust. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16059. 
2. ^ BBC NEWS | Education | League Tables | Myton School

External links

• Official website