Oaks Park High School (OPHS) is a comprehensive secondary school and sixth form situated in the London Borough of Redbridge in east London and has around 2600 students and over 80 staff. The school is a officially known to be a sports school.
Oaks Park is a specialist Music College and their current GCSE results are marginally above the national average in England.
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And hews down oaks with rushes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
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—Bible: Hebrew Psalms 149:5-9.
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)