The school was built in Glanville Road in east Oxford in 1934 to take in boys from Oxford Municipal Secondary School and Central School, both of which required additional accommodation. The school merged with the City of Oxford High School in 1966 (see document S211/3/A16/1 for minutes of the Merger Working Party) under the name of Oxford School. This became Oxford Spires Academy in 2011.
The records in the collection, which include pupil record and admission cards, a staff register, governors' minutes, and journals, were deposited at the Oxfordshire History Centre as Acc 2911 in 1988, Acc 4362 in June 1998, Acc 5184 in August 2003 and Acc 6560 in April 2017. The governors' minutes (transferred in 1990) were formerly held in the Central Library in Oxford.
Catalogued by Mark Priddey, July 2014 with additions by Alison Smith in May 2023.