Schools
New Marston Church of England School in Marston Road opened in 1928 and became St Michael's Church of England Aided Primary School in 1955.
Milham Ford School, a girls' secondary school that had been founded in Cowley Place in 1906, moved to newly built and larger premises in Marston Road in 1939. The school was closed in 2003 and its premises sold to Oxford Brookes University.
Infant and junior mixed schools were opened in Copse Lane north of Headley Way in 1948. They are now New Marston Primary School.
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