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  • Academy Consultation
    Oak Bank School is now in consultation for becoming an academy. Documents relating to this move are available to download from the School Info link.
  • Back to the trenches a complete "yet muddy" success!
    Staff and pupils took part in and completed a grueling 5k race over obstacles and through gallons of freezing mud.
  • School closed due to snow-January 21st 2013
    Due to weather warnings and dangerous travel conditions, Oak Bank School will be closed on Monday 21st January 2013. Staff can be contacted via email.
  • Happy Christmas
    The staff at Oak Bank School would like to wish all parents, carers and pupils a merry Christmas and a happy new year! Have a great break!
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Oak Bank School is a coeducational school, located in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England. The school accepts pupils from all over the Central Bedfordshire area.

Oak Bank was established in 1976 as school for 'maladjusted children', and originally had capacity for 40 boarding pupils and 20 day pupils. The school had been commissioned by Luton County Borough, specifically for children from Luton, however Bedfordshire County Council took over responsibility for completing the school after the Local Government Act 1972, and the school accepted children from all over the county of Bedfordshire from its opening. Central Bedfordshire Council took over responsibility for the school after the 2009 structural changes to local government in England.

Today Oak Bank is a day school for pupils who have statements of special educational need associated with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. When pupils join the school they have frequently had fractured experiences of education, and so their attainment on entry is well below average. There are currently 60 pupils on roll.

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