Oaklands Catholic School

Oaklands Roman Catholic Comprehensive School and Sixth Form College in England is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form college with academy status located in Waterlooville, Hampshire. It opened in 1966, although its history can be traced back to 1902. Around 1400 students attend the main school with over 150 in the sixth form college. It has been a Specialist Humanities College since 2005. The school had a "Good" Ofsted report in 2017 and were accredited with "many outstanding features".

Buildings
The school is made up of eight houses and consists of seven different blocks, separated into different subject groups. There has been an extensive site improvement programme involving the replacement of prefabricated buildings with purpose-designed brick-built buildings. Three new blocks were developed (Music, Humanities, sixth form); each of these were built in a similar style, incorporating a Christian cross in different coloured bricks. In 2012, a major refurbishment of the Maths/Science block was undertaken. The labs were updated in three phases and the project was completed by Summer 2013.

Uniform
The school uniform was redesigned for the September 2009 academic year; the expense of the uniform caused criticism. A press release was issued claiming that many of the facts published by newspaper articles were incorrect, and that due to the controversy, the school would start a cheaper uniform shop.

Alumni
Alumni of Oaklands School include:
 * Louise Casey, Baroness Casey of Blackstock attended Oaklands between 1976 and 1983.
 * Jon Cruddas, elected in 2010 as the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, having been elected in 2001 for the preceding Dagenham constituency.
 * Caroline Dinenage, elected in 2010 as the Conservative MP for Gosport.
 * Penny Mordaunt, elected in 2010 as the Conservative MP for Portsmouth North and Leader of the House of Commons as well as the former Secretary of State for Defence.
 * James Ward-Prowse, West Ham United F.C. player and former Southampton F.C. team captain and England national football team player.
 * Rosie and Nicola Dempsey, British comedy act Flo & Joan.
 * Martin Montague, an entrepreneur and author.