Icknield Community College is a comprehensive school

Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...

 in Watlington

Watlington, Oxfordshire

Watlington is a market town and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlets of Christmas Common and Greenfield, both of which are in the Chiltern Hills. The M40 motorway is from Watlington.-History:...

, Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

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, England. It has Humanities

Humanities College

Humanities Colleges were introduced in 2004 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, humanities. Schools that successfully apply to the Specialist Schools Trust and become Humanities...

 specialist

Specialist school

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 status and is situated next to Watlington Primary School.

At its Ofsted

Ofsted

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inspection in June 2008 it was rated "Grade 2, Good".

Subjects

English, English Literature, Mathematics, Science, Additional Science, Triple Science, ICT, Applied ICT, Religious Education, Physical Education, Business Studies, Food Technology, Geography, French, Spanish, Drama, Music, Art, Textiles, History, Media Studies, Dance.

External links

• Icknield Community College official site on Ofsted website