Clacton County High School

Coordinates: 51°47′58″N 1°08′31″E / 51.79936°N 1.14182°E

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Clacton County High School
Address

Walton Road Clacton-on-Sea , Essex , CO15 6DZ England
Coordinates	51°47′58″N 1°08′31″E / 51.79936°N 1.14182°E / 51.79936; 1.14182
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	Higher Expectations, Raising Aspirations, Transforming Lives
Established	1928
Department for Education URN	138084 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Executive Headteacher	Neil Gallagher
Head of School	Chris Taylor
Gender	Co-educational
Age	11 to 19
Enrolment	1900
Capacity	2320
Website	https://www.countyhigh.org.uk/

Clacton County High School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Clacton-on-Sea, in the county of Essex, England.

There are over 1,900 students attending the school. It operates across two sites; 11-16 at Walton Road and the sixth form based at the Tendring Education Centre on Jaywick Lane. The sixth form is working in partnership with other local schools to provide post-16 years education in the Clacton area.

History

The school was opened as a grammar school in September 1928. The official opening was on 28 November 1928 by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (son of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh). Pupils had to pay for the privilege of attending this school, twelve guineas per year (£12.60), as well as buy all their own books, materials and instruments. During the Second World War, a German bomber with sea mines crashed near the school on Victoria Road in April 1940. The crew and two civilians were killed.^[1]

It became a comprehensive school in 1973. In 1998, it became an arts college. It converted to academy status on 1 April 2012. On the 1 September 2016, the school formed the Sigma Trust along with five other schools in the locality.^[2]

In 2023 the school was found to have potentially structurally unsound buildings due to the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete as a building material.^[3]

Notable former students

Michael Comber, Essex cricket^[4]
Tom Eastman, footballer^[5]
Ian Westlake, footballer^[6]
Sade, Helen Folasade Adu CBE, singer^[7]
Barry Douglas Lamb, experimental musician^[8]

References

^ "The History of the School". Clacton County High School. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
^ "Sigma Trust History".
^ "Which schools have closed, shut buildings or moved over aerated concrete?". BBC News. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
^ "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "Clacton footballer Eastman swaps Blues for U's". Clacton and Frinton Gazette. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
^ "Tom's hoping to follow in Ian's footsteps". Gazette. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
^ "Did you go to the same Colchester school as these celebrities?". Gazette. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "About". Barry Lamb. Retrieved 5 November 2024.

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