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Moving towards closure at Oak Farm

October 18, 2010

The leaders of Hampshire County Council voted in January to close Oak Farm Community School in August 2011.

The closure of the Farnborough secondary school will mean the loss of around 60 jobs, force around 150 pupils to move to new schools, and end 38 years of history for the area's only community secondary school.

Council education planners, who proposed the closure, said Oak Farm had to shut because there were not enough children in Farnborough to justify the four secondary schools there - Wavell, Ferhill, Cove and Oak Farm - with significant numbers of empty school desks.

Oak Farm, which with just 230 pupils on its roll was less than a third full, making it the smallest secondary school in Hampshire, will therefore get the chop.

The county council says the closure will pave the way for up to £100m of government funding to transform the remaining secondary schools in Aldershot and Farnborough.

However, school governors, staff and parents are angry at the way the closure has been handled.

Users of the school's popular community and adult education facilities - some 92,000 people a year - will have to wait until July to learn their fate, although council leaders offered assurances that such facilities would continue after 2011.

Here you can keep up with all the latest stories on the future of Oak Farm.

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Their results before they closed was 9% GCSEs from A to C. It was the second worst school in the country.

RoseC
02/02/2012 at 23:48

I for one say thank goodness Oak Farm is closing down! It has to be the worst school ever. My son at Juniors was statemented with step 3 special needs as he suffers from dyslexia. The Junior school got him to a level 5 in his Sats. Oak Farm ignored what his junior school reported to them, placed him in set 1 where he got no support or help, no matter how many times I went in and called and wrote to them. He only went there as they had a specialist unit, which should of meant he got the help he deserved. Finally I had to save up and pay for a private assessment from the Helen Arkle center. At 15 he had a reading age of 7years and writing age of 7years 3 months. Armed with my evidence I was told oh sorry looks like he slipped the net!!! did he get any further help???? NO they still didn't give any extra help, as they then felt they had left it too late for it to make any difference! He left there at only a level 3.....going down 2 levels He is now at Basingstoke College and doing well and has hopes of UNI..... However his biggest fear is the written word! if he had the correct help from 11 through to 16 he would have much more confidence. A Child who wanted to learn and is intelligent so badly let down!

Kazanne, Farnborough
17/09/2010 at 17:04

Farnborough is so lucky to have 4 secondary schools when Aldershot has to just cope with 1.

I am sorry to hear people might lose their jobs but why has Farnborough got 4 secondary schools?