| Motto | "Studio Floremus" translated as "By study we flourish" |
|---|---|
| Established | 1660 |
| Type | Comprehensive community school |
| Headteacher | Mrs N J Edmondson. |
| Founder | Henry Box |
| Specialism | Languages, Science |
| Location | Church Green Witney Oxfordshire OX28 4AX England |
| Local authority | Oxfordshire |
| DfE number | ???/4050 |
| DfE URN | 123237 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1351 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Redgrave, Nightingale, Churchill, Newton |
| Colours | Yellow, White, Blue, Green |
| Former name | Witney Grammar School |
| Website | HBS |
The Henry Box School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Witney in the English county of Oxfordshire.
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It has a catchment area of the town of Witney and many surrounding villages such as Ducklington, Aston and Bampton. It has approximately 1400 students,[1] aged 11–18. The Latin motto of the Henry Box School is 'Studio Floremus', which can be translated as 'By study we flourish'.
It was established in 1660 by Grocer, [1] Henry Box and his wife Mary.
For 300 years it was a public grammar school, administered by Oxfordshire Education Committee as a co-educational school. In the early 1960s it had 350 boys and girls, and was known as The Witney Grammar School, Witney.
It was converted to a state comprehensive school in 1968. In the 1990s it had around 1,000 pupils. The school was granted Specialist College status in September 2001 for Modern Foreign Languages, and was the first school in Oxfordshire to gain a second specialism, that of Science and Maths in 2006.
The Henry Box School plays an annual football game against the Abingdon and Witney College in memory of former student Kevin Mott.
It gets well above-average GCSE results and above-average results at A-level, though not particularly high.