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The De Montfort School is a secondary school located in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. It is a mixed comprehensive community school serving 10- to 18-year-olds primarily from Evesham and its surrounding villages.The school was created after a consultation was undertaken on the proposal to merge two Evesham schools - Simon de Montfort Middle School and Evesham High School - which had previously been run in a "hard federation", after Simon de Montfort Middle School was taken into special measures. The schools already shared a roll of staff and board of governors. After operating the federated school for several years, the then headteacher, Caroline Browne, and board of governors sought to consolidate the federation and form a new school on the federation's combined grounds and buildings. These proposals were approved by Worcestershire County Council after a consultation with staff, parents, students, feeder schools and the Secretary of State for Education on.While separate institutions and still using their former names, Simon de Montfort Middle School and Evesham High School previously received "Good" ratings from Ofsted in their March 2014 and September 2011 inspections respectively. Evesham High School Sixth Form previously received a "Satisfactory" rating in its September 2011 Ofsted inspection report with the report specifying a "good capacity to improve". After the merger, however, GCSE results for the De Montfort School in the 2015 academic year fell well below the government standard for attainment with just 32% of students achieving the baseline 5 GCSEs at C-grade and above. The Department for Education ranks the school in the lowest 10% of schools in England at the primary level and lowest 30% at the secondary level, describing it as "well below national average".