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The Buckingham School is a co-educational secondary school in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 1000 pupils.In September 2004, the Department for Education and Skills designated the school as a specialist Sports College. The school also holds Investors in People status.The school has seven houses, which are named after sporting figures. They are Daley, Simmonds, Rutherford, Ennis, Farah, Murray, and Button. Previously, the seven houses were Holmes, Phillips, Adlington, Hamilton, Pietersen, Beckham and Thompson. Before that, there were four houses named after famous sporting venues. They were Lords, Silverstone, Twickenham and Wembley.Following several poor inspections by Ofsted, the school was placed on special measures. The Headteacher Christine Jones resigned and Peter Rowe, Headteacher of Princes Risborough School was on secondment to the school for a term whilst a new headteacher was recruited. Peter Rowe was brought into Princes Risborough School after an unsatisfactory inspection in 2004. In July 2008, Angela Wells was appointed as acting Headteacher and she was later confirmed as the new Headteacher.. On the 3 October 2008 Ofsted published its findings from a monitoring visit and found that progress since being subject to special measures was inadequate. However, a subsequent monitoring visit conducted by Ofsted in January 2009 found that the school had made satisfactory progress. A full inspection was carried out in June 2009 which saw the school removed from special measures and awarded an overall grade of satisfactory with some good areas. In February 2016, the school was recognised as 'good' in all areas by Ofsted, for the first time in the century.