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{{Infobox school
| name = The Misbourne School
| image = The_Misbourne_Logo.png
| image_size = 200px
| coordinates = {{coord|51.6985|-0.7046|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dec|display=inline,title}}
| motto = Inspiring Minds - Broadening Opportunities
| established = 1956
| closed =
| type = [[Academy (English school)|Academy]]
| religious_affiliation =
| president =
| head_label = Headteacher
| head = Rich Peters
| r_head_label =
| r_head =
| chair_label = Chair of Trustees
| chair = Kate Goodwin
| founder =
| address = Misbourne Drive
| city = [[Great Missenden]]
| county = [[Buckinghamshire]]
| country = England
| postcode = HP16 0BN
| local_authority = [[Buckinghamshire County Council|Buckinghamshire]]
| ofsted = yes
| urn = 145322
| staff =
| enrolment = 1096
| gender = [[Mixed-sex education|Coeducational]]
| lower_age = 11
| upper_age = 18
| houses = Franklin (Green)
Attenborough (Red)
Turing (Yellow)
Holmes (Blue)
| colours = Navy and pale blue {{color box|#000080}}{{color box|#AADDFF}}
| publication =
| free_label_1 =
| free_1 =
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| website = http://www.themisbourne.co.uk
}}
'''The Misbourne School''' is a [[Mixed-sex education|coeducational]] [[Secondary_school#Terminology:_descriptions_of_cohorts|secondary school]] and [[sixth form]] situated in [[Great Missenden]], Buckinghamshire, England. Established in 1956, the school caters to students aged 11 to 18 and has approximately 1,096 pupils (2024), with 110 in sixth form.<ref name=AnnualReport2024/> The school offers [[A-levels]] and [[Business and Technology Education Council|BTEC]] qualifications.<ref name=AandBTEC/>
== Academic performance ==
In the [[Ofsted]] report of 2022, The Misbourne maintained its 'Good' rating.<ref name=Ofsted2022/> Ofsted reported that the school's 'leadership of teaching and learning is a considerable strength' and noted that 'students are friendly, polite, courteous and conduct themselves exceptionally well in lessons and around the school' while 'principled and aspirational leadership embeds a culture of ambition which permeates the school'<ref name="misbourne.bucks.sch.uk">{{cite web|title=Ofsted Report – The Misbourne|url=https://misbourne.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/key_information/Ofsted-Report-Misbourne-School-10033407-PDF-Final.pdf?t=1597658780|access-date=17 August 2020|work=misbourne.bucks.sch.uk}}</ref>
The Misbourne improved its 5 A*-C GCSE performance from 72% in 2011.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.getbucks.co.uk/news/local-news/fantastic-gcses-misbourne-school-5798538|title='Fantastic' GCSEs for the Misbourne School|first=Jack|last=Abell|date=22 August 2013|work=getbucks.co.uk|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref> to 84% in 2012, placing the school in the top four upper schools in Buckinghamshire, to its highest ever result of 88% in 2013.<ref name="auto"/> In the [[sixth form]], 99% of A level exams were passed, with 76% at A*-C and 41% A*-B.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getbucks.co.uk/news/local-news/best-ever-a-level-results-misbourne-5798504|title=Best ever A-Level results for The Misbourne|first=Lorcan|last=Lovett|date=15 August 2013|work=getbucks.co.uk|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref> In 2019 the school reported its best ever GCSE results with 74% of pupils achieving a grade between 9 and 4 in English and Maths.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themisbourne.co.uk/506/key-information/category/20/exam-results|access-date=2020-08-17|website=www.themisbourne.co.uk|title=Exam Results - Key Information - the Misbourne }}</ref>
According to its 2013 Ofsted report, "The sixth form is good. Students’ attainment at both AS and A2 levels is improving. Sixth formers make good progress in their work related courses" Ofsted Report April 2013.<ref name="misbourne.bucks.sch.uk"/>
In 2022 the percentage of students who achieved a standard (9-4) pass in English and mathematics: 73%, percentage of students who achieved a strong pass (grade 5 or above) in English and maths at the end of KS4, 50%<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exam Results - Key Information - The Misbourne |url=https://www.themisbourne.co.uk/506/key-information/category/20/exam-results |access-date=2022-10-20 |website=www.themisbourne.co.uk}}</ref>
== Facilities ==
Partly as a result of the school's specialist statuses in Arts and Technology, the school has several [[Information and communication technologies|ICT]] rooms with computers for student use. In addition, there is a printing room where photographs can be processed and produced. Students also have access to computer aided design software ([[Computer-aided design|CAD]]).{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}
The school canteen functions as a café, operated by a third-party company. The school also has tennis courts and large playing fields.
Recently the school has built an English block, giving students extra space.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}
Due to the new English block being built there was extra area for a new sixth-form study room this room includes an area for the students to study and relax in including computer suits and 'pods'.{{Clarify|date=April 2019}}
The school's Performing Arts block was opened in 2004, in memory of former headmaster David Selman. It provides a small practise rooms for private [[music lesson]]s and student use. The classrooms are all equipped with [[Casio keyboard]]s.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} There is a dance studio and a recording studio equipped with music editing software. Sixth formers have access to their own private study area and [[Information and communication technologies|ICT]] suite.
== History ==
The Misbourne was the first purpose-built [[secondary modern school]] in the country.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Misbourne News |publisher=Misbourne School Newsletter |date=October 2005 |url=http://www.misbourne.bucks.sch.uk/downloads/newsletters/2005-10.pdf |access-date=17 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929011141/http://www.misbourne.bucks.sch.uk/downloads/newsletters/2005-10.pdf |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref> The first pupils started at the school on 19 December 1955, although it did not officially open until 20 January 1956. Originally there were only twenty-five students.<ref>{{cite news | title=Old school pals invited to be part of Golden Jubilee bash | publisher=Bucks Free Press | date=7 September 2005 | url=http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/search/display.var.628140.0.old_school_pals_invited_to_be_part_of_golden_jubilee_bash.php | access-date=17 August 2007 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926222842/http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/search/display.var.628140.0.old_school_pals_invited_to_be_part_of_golden_jubilee_bash.php | archive-date=26 September 2007 }}</ref>
The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2005/6. The celebrations culminated in a [[Golden Jubilee|Jubilee]] summer [[fête]] in June 2006 which was attended by [[Cherie Blair]].<ref>{{cite news | last=Phillips | first=Neil | title=Cherie Blair keeps her playground date | publisher=Bucks Free Press | date=23 July 2007 | url=http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1560847.mostviewed.cherie_blair_keeps_her_playground_date.php | access-date=17 August 2007}}</ref>
The Misbourne School was rated the "friendliest school in Britain" in 2005, on [[Friends Reunited]].<ref>{{cite press release | title=Friends Reunited 2005 School Report Shows Women Make Better School Friends Than Men | agency=PR Newswire | date=29 November 2005 | url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=159355 | access-date=28 July 2006}}
</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Friendly praise for school celebrating 50 years | publisher=Bucks Free Press | date=5 December 2005 | url=http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/search/display.var.657565.0.friendly_praise_for_school_celebrating_50_years.php | access-date=17 August 2007 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223052/http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/search/display.var.657565.0.friendly_praise_for_school_celebrating_50_years.php | archive-date=26 September 2007 }}</ref>
In September 2006 the Misbourne was awarded [[specialist school]] statuses in both [[Arts College|Arts]] and [[Technology College|Technology]].<ref name=ofsted>{{cite web | title=Ofsted database: The Misbourne School | publisher=Ofsted | url=http://www.misbourne.bucks.sch.uk/?_id=1405 | access-date=28 October 2011}}</ref>
The Misbourne celebrated the first MizFest on 9 July 2012 students took part in music and drama performances, a fashion show, and workshops including fashion, cake baking, trampolining and Taiko drumming, with a performance by the community choir.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prestwood.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2012/07/mizfest-is-a-hot-one-at-the-mi.html|title=Prestwood|work=buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref>
Rt Hon [[Cheryl Gillan]] MP, visited The Misbourne on Friday 14 March 2014.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=CherylGillan|author=Cheryl Gillan MP|number=445182291959357441|date=16 March 2014|title=Thanks for great visit to the Misbourne School so pleased to hear from enthusiastic pupils & staff about improvement}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.misbourne.bucks.sch.uk/57/news/article/118/local-mp-commends-the-misbourne|title=- News – The Misbourne|work=misbourne.bucks.sch.uk|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref>
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 former Misbourne student, Lieutenant Ian Bennett, "dropped in" to The Misbourne in a Merlin Mk 2 helicopter. Bennett came back to school to talk about his career in the [[Royal Navy]], and invited some on board the helicopter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.misbourne.bucks.sch.uk/57/news/article/119/royal-navy-helicopter-drops-in-to-the-misbourne|title=- News – The Misbourne|work=misbourne.bucks.sch.uk|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/11091711.Navy_helicopter_pilot_drops_in_at_old_school/?ref=mr|title=Navy helicopter pilot drops in at old school|work=bucksfreepress.co.uk|date=20 March 2014 |access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getbucks.co.uk/news/local-news/navy-helicopter-makes-surprise-landing-6860377|title=Video: Navy helicopter makes surprise landing|first=Lorcan|last=Lovett|date=21 March 2014|work=getbucks.co.uk|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref>
Previously a [[Community school (England and Wales)|community school]] administered by [[Buckinghamshire County Council]], in January 2018 Misbourne School converted to [[Academy (English school)|academy status]].
==Notable former pupils==
*[[Jennifer Higham]], actor
*[[Alex Kew]], actor
*[[Alice Connor]], actor
*[[Tom Helm (cricketer)|Tom Helm]], cricketer
==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=AnnualReport2024>{{cite web|accessdate=2025-02-16
|url=https://misbourne.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/document/Annual-Report-2023-24-2.pdf?t=1738585553?ts=1739719263
|title=The Misbourne:Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2024 |format=pdf
|publisher=The Misbourne}}
</ref>
<ref name=AandBTEC>{{cite web|accessdate=2025-02-16
|url=https://www.themisbourne.co.uk/1233/gcse-and-a-level-options
|title=Careers Hub:GCSE and A Level Options|publisher=The Misbourne}}
</ref>
<ref name=Ofsted2022>{{cite web|accessdate=2025-02-16
|url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50188656|format=pdf
|title=Inspection of a good school: The Misbourne |publisher=Ofsted
|date=15 July 2022}}</ref>
}}
==External links==
*[http://www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/schools/performance/school.pl?urn=110490 Department for Education Performance Tables 2011]
{{Schools in Buckinghamshire}}
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[[Category:Secondary schools in Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1956]]
[[Category:1956 establishments in England]]
[[Category:Academies in Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category:Great Missenden]]
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