Henry Box School
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The Henry Box School was established in 1660 by grocer Henry and Mary Box, and is a Comprehensive secondary school located in Witney, Oxfordshire, England. For 300 years, it was a public Grammar School, but was converted to a state Comprehensive School in 1968. It has a catchment area of the town and many surrounding villages such as Aston and Bampton. It has approximately 1300 students, aged 11-18. The Latin motto of the Henry Box School is 'Studio Floremus', which can be translated as 'By study we flourish'. The current headteacher is Mr. Rod Walker who joined the school in January 1996.
The school was granted Specialist College status in September 2001 for Modern Foreign Languages, in recognition of it's high academic standards across the curriculum, and was the first school in Oxfordshire to gain a second specialism, that of Science/Maths in 2006.