St Michael's Catholic School, High Wycombe


St Michael's Catholic School is a Catholic all-through voluntary aided school located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. In 2016 the school had 1124 pupils. It enrols children aged 3 through 19.
In February 2017, it was announced that the school was proposing the creation of a satellite school at the Aylesbury Vale Academy's former site in neighbouring Aylesbury due to lack of space and population increase predictions. If the proposals go ahead, the school is expected to open in September 2018 with a Year 7 intake of 120 students.
The school's catchment area for many years has included Aylesbury and surrounding areas, which has a high proportion of baptised Catholics.

History

Founded in 1973 as St Bernard's Catholic School as a satellite of St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School in Slough, in 2011 it amalgamated with neighbouring Catholic primary school St Augustine's Catholic Primary, creating an all-through school called St Augustine's and St Bernard's Catholic School.
According to the BBC's Domesday Project, in 1986 the school had 840 pupils between the ages of 11 and 16. The buildings were reported to have been 10 years old at the time, in front of extensive playing fields on a site of 17 acres.
In September 2008, St Bernard's Catholic School was awarded specialist school status as a Science College, by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
In 2011 the school was among 494 schools nationwide praised by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust for its fast improvement of GCSE results. The number of pupils receiving five A* – C grades, including in English and Maths, increased from 42 per cent in 2009 to 64 per cent in 2011.
From September 2012 the school stopped being called St Augustine's and St Bernard's Catholic School and is now known by its current name.

Houses

In Secondary there are five houses,