The Swan School is a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...

and

sixth form In the education systems of Barbados, England, Jamaica, Northern Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago, Wales, and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18. Pupils typically prepa ...

located in

Marston, Oxford Marston is a village in the Civil parishes in England, civil parish of Old Marston about northeast of the centre of Oxford, England. It was absorbed within the city boundaries in 1991. It is commonly called Old Marston to distinguish it from th ...

. The school opened in September 2019 and was Oxford's first new secondary school in more than 50 years.

History

The Swan is part of the River Learning Trust which also includes nearby

Cherwell School The Cherwell School is a secondary school with academy status on the Marston Ferry Road in Oxford, England. The current school site was built in 1963 as a secondary modern school, later becoming the main comprehensive school for North Oxford, ...

. The school has a capacity of 1,260 pupils. Admissions first started with an intake of 120 students in September 2019, into temporary accommodation. New premises were constructed on Marston Ferry Road and the school moved in September 2020. As of January 2024 the school has a teaching complement of 46. Pupils at the Swan are banned from bringing in pack lunches (unless a student is medically exempt from this), with all served meals being vegetarian in order to realise "environmental benefits" and enable "better quality" food. In September 2022 the school was reported to have the highest exclusion rate in the county of Oxfordshire, with 11% of pupils having temporary suspensions over the preceding year. The Swan achieved an overall rating of "Good" in its first Ofsted inspection in September 2023, however it achieved "Outstanding" ratings in behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and sixth-form provision.

References

{{authority control Secondary schools in Oxfordshire Free schools in England Educational institutions established in 2019 Schools in Oxford 2019 establishments in England