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Larkmead School

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Following an electrical storm and consequent lightning strike in the summer of 2017, the school's infrastructure sustained notable damage, and there are a number of parallel initiatives ongoing to both repair and improve the facilities at the school.
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status, it was deemed necessary to update and extend the school's buildings. A new collection of buildings were built away from the main teaching areas to house the administrative centre of the school, where the office and
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Since its inception the school has made several new additions to its buildings, including a music centre with a performance room and several practice and technology rooms, which is now shared by the
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It collaborates with Abingdon's two other state secondary schools and the Further Education College to provide a wider range of sixth form options.
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The school's buildings were completed by Easter 1956, and on 8 June the school was officially opened by
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in 1945, and the introduction of primary and secondary education under
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Academy in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
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Larkmead School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Abingdon-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
Coordinates
51°40′37″N 1°18′00″W / 51.677°N 1.300°W / 51.677; -1.300
Academy
Oxfordshire County Council
Department for Education
143890
Tables
Ofsted
Reports
Coeducational
http://www.larkmead-school.com/
coeducational
secondary school
sixth form
Abingdon-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
Second World War
R.A. Butler
Education Act 1944
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Design Technology
comprehensive
Learning Resource Centre
Abingdon Music Centre.
Ofsted
community school
Oxfordshire County Council

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