Cressex Community School is a cooperative trust secondary school in High Wycombe

High Wycombe

High Wycombe , commonly known as Wycombe and formally called Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe until 1946,is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is west-north-west of Charing Cross in London; this figure is engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town...

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 470 pupils.
Cressex Community School has formed a partnership with nearby Wycombe Abbey

Wycombe Abbey

Wycombe Abbey is an independent girls' boarding school situated in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is academically one of the top schools in the United Kingdom, and the top girls' boarding school...

 independent school

Independent school (UK)

An independent school is a school that is not financed through the taxation system by local or national government and is instead funded by private sources, predominantly in the form of tuition charges, gifts and long-term charitable endowments, and so is not subject to the conditions imposed by...

, which enables pupils from both schools to work together.
The school has recently been allocated £31 million of Government funding, to completely redevelop the site by 2009.

External links

• Department for Education Performance Tables 2009 (GCSE and equivalent)
• Department for Education Performance Tables 2009 (Post-16)
• News report of a fire at the school in February 2008