Myton School is a secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 located on Myton Road in the town of Warwick

Warwick

Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town lies upon the River Avon, south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is conjoined. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 23,350...

 in Warwickshire

Warwickshire

Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...

, England. The history of the school in its current form dates from 1968. the school has 1,626 pupils.

History

The school started life as Oken High School, a mixed-sex, non-selective secondary school which was opened in 1954. In 1959 Oken became Oken High Scool for Boys when the girls were transferred to the newly established Beauchamp High Scool for Girls. The two single-sex schools had each moved to the site that Myton School presently occupies and they were amalgamated in 1968. Since then the school has grown substantially as the size of each school year has increased, 11 year olds were admitted for the first time in 1996 (when Warwickshire changed its secondary school start date to a year earlier) and as the Sixth Form has grown in size.
The school became a grant maintained school in 1992, and a foundation school

Foundation school

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 after grant maintained status was abolished by the incoming Labour government in 1997. Under the government's school specialisation funding scheme it has become a specialist Science College

Science College

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Achievement

In 2008, 59.4% of A-Level

GCE Advanced Level

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 candidates achieving A-C grades and 76% of GCSE

General Certificate of Secondary Education

The General Certificate of Secondary Education is an academic qualification awarded in a specified subject, generally taken in a number of subjects by students aged 14–16 in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is equivalent to a Level 2 and Level 1 in Key Skills...

candidates achieving 5 or more A*–C grades in 2008.
In 2010, Myton School GCSE 78% of students obtained five A*-C grades, of which 67% include English and Maths.
It also has major new plans for a sixth form centre to replace the current one which first opened in the 1990s and used as a drama studio until 2004. The school is to become an academy in September of 2011.