Education
Steeple Aston has one school, Dr. Radcliffe's Church of England Primary School, in Firs Lane. Dr. Samuel Radcliffe, principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, founded it in 1640 along with a pair of almshouses.
Most secondary school pupils from the village attend The Warriner School, Bloxham near Banbury.
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