Icknield Community College is a

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located in Watlington,

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, England. It offers tuition for years 7-11 (ages 11–16), culminating in the

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exams, and has

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status. The school is situated next to

Watlington Primary School Watlington is a small market town and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern edge and less than from its border with Buckinghamshire. The parish includes the hamlets of Christmas Common, Greenfield and ...

. Icknield admits students from its catchment area covering, in addition to Watlington itself, the nearby Oxfordshire villages of

Chinnor Chinnor is a large village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in South Oxfordshire about southeast of Thame, close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The village is a spring line settlement on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern Hills ...

Chalgrove Chalgrove is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about southeast of Oxford. The parish includes the hamlet of Rofford and the former parish of Warpsgrove with which it merged in 1932. The 2011 Census recorded the parish populatio ...

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and others, as well from

Stokenchurch Stokenchurch is a village and civil parish in south-west Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about south of Chinnor in Oxfordshire and west of High Wycombe. Stokenchurch is a commuter village, served by junction 5 of ...

across the county border in Buckinghamshire. In its March 2015

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inspection, the school was rated "Good". In 2017, Icknield converted to academy status, and joined the Acer Trust, a multi-academy trust of Oxfordshire schools.

Notable former pupils

Karl Penhale Karl William Penhale (born 3 February 1992) is an English former first-class cricketer. Penhale was born at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, but was educated at Icknield Community College in neighbouring Oxfordshire. From there he went up to ...

(born 1992), cricketer

References

External links

Icknield Community College
official site * on Ofsted website {{authority control Secondary schools in Oxfordshire Academies in Oxfordshire Watlington, Oxfordshire