A SCHOOL has reassured parents that it is not due to close - despite a government website saying it was.

St Gregory the Great Catholic School in Oxford is implementing changes to guide improvements, after Ofsted rated it 'inadequate' in December for the second time.

One concerned reader contacted the Oxford Mail after the government's school information website stated St Greg's is 'open, but proposed to close'.

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The (cropped) profile for St Gregory the Great Catholic School on get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

The website listed the reason as 'fresh start' and the 'closure date' as July 31.

This same designation is given to schools that are converting into academies, or switching from one multi-academy trust to another.

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The latter is true of St Greg's as the trust that runs it, the Dominic Barberi Multi Academy Company (DBMAC), is due to merge with Oxfordshire's other Catholic academy trust - Pope Francis Multi-Academy Company - in due course.

However, no date has been set for the merger and the Oxford Mail understands it is unlikely it will happen this academic year, as the government's site suggested.

A director of the DBAC said the school is not closing and that they have contacted the Department for Education to amend the website to avoid confusion.

School governors were disbanded earlier this month and replaced with an interim governing board.

A draft of the school's latest governing notes said Dame Kate Detheridge, the regional school's commissioner overseeing academies, would be a member of the board.

However the school has clarified this is not correct, although she will be providing support.

One confirmed member of the board is Niall McWilliams, the former head of The Oxford Academy and managing director of Oxford United.