The Bicester School

The Bicester School is a mixed, multi-heritage, secondary school, with around 963 students . It is situated in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, and occupies a 32acre 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 allweather surfaces to the sports field's jumping and throwing event areas.HistoryThe 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."