A schoolgirl who died at Wycombe Abbey Boarding School has now been named.

Thames Valley Police confirmed a body was found near the school before midnight on Friday, April 21, 

Caitlyn Scott-Lee's body was discovered in a wooded area near the playing fields, the MailOnline reports. She was a student in Year 11.

In an email seen by the MailOnline, headmistress Jo Duncan addressed parents: "‘They are a close year group and, as you will understand, they are very shocked and upset.

"It is an extremely difficult time for everyone and we will do our utmost to provide the additional pastoral care the girls will need.

"I am sure that you will join me and everyone at Wycombe Abbey in sending our deepest sympathies to Caitlyn’s parents, siblings and wider family who are in our thoughts and prayers at this sad time."

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According to the national newspaper, it is understood that her parents banker Jonathan Scott-Lee and his accountant wife Tara were abroad at the time and had to fly back to Britain following the tragic news.

Wycombe Abbey School has been contacted for comment.

The school is set in the heart of High Wycombe on 160 acres of conservation grounds, it is one of the leading independent schools in the country with an estimated 13 per cent of students progressing to Oxbridge universities. 

In 2019, two former pupils died in two separate tragedies.  

Talented violinist Ekaterina Tsukanova, daughter of Russian banker Igor Tsukanov, was found dead in the bathroom of her father's home.

An inquest heard that she had self-harmed and drank alcohol to cope with GCSE exam stress, and had not intended to kill herself.

In the same year, Iris Goldsmith - daughter of financier Ben Goldsmith - was killed in a quad bike accident in Somerset. She was 15 years old.