Marlborough School (Woodstock)
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The Marlborough School (not to be confused with Marlborough College the famous English public school) is a co-educational Church of England comprehensive school serving the Oxfordshire town of Woodstock and its surrounding villages. The school takes its name from the Duke of Marborough whose palace, Blenheim, is in Woodstock. The school currently educates over a thousand pupils. The head teacher is Mrs Julie Fenn.
[edit] Recent History
The school suffered particularly badly from the underfunding of English state education in the 1980s and 1990s during which period many of the lessons were taught in temporary classrooms. In the early part of the 21st century new language, mathematics and sixth form blocks were built together with science and music wings.
Marlborough is probaly one of the worst schools that is possible to learn in. The suffering state education sysetem brings this school down.
In the 1980s and 1990s the school had a reputation as a "comprehensive comprehensive," with a focus on teaching "how to learn" and "how to socialise" (which it did with varying degrees of success) rather then training pupils for exams. In recent years it has pretty much thrown off that reputation, possibly because it is less popular with the increasingly middle class local population. The last cohort of local children - who's ancestors had lived in the villages for many generations - probably passed through the school in the late 1990s.
Exam results are now excellent, particualarly by the standards of local education authortity controlled schools.
[edit] Ormerod Unit
A particular feature of the school is an embedded unit from the Ormerod school which allows children in Oxfordshire with disabilities to be educated in mainstream secondary school.
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