St Michael's Catholic School, High Wycombe

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.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.HistoryFounded 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 Catholic primary school St Augustine's 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).