- Clacton County High School
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Clacton County High School Motto Wider Aspirations, Higher Expectations Established 1928 Type Foundation school Principal Mr Jeff Brindle Assistant Principal Mr C J Hunt Specialism Arts Location Walton Road
Clacton-on-Sea
Essex
CO15 6DZ
EnglandLocal authority Essex DfE number ???/5444 DfE URN 115360 Ofsted Reports Students 1686 Gender Coeducational Ages 11–19 Website countyhigh.org.uk Coordinates: 51°47′58″N 1°08′31″E / 51.79936°N 1.14182°E
Clacton County High School (often abbreviated to CCHS) is a comprehensive secondary school located in Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex.
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Admissions
There are over 1600 students attending the school, which recently passed its 80th birthday.[citation needed] It is a Specialist Performing Arts College, meaning that one of the main focuses is performing drama and dance shows. It is situated next to Clacton Leisure Centre, east of the railway station.
Sixth Form
The school sixth form is working in partnership with other local schools to provide post 16 years education in the Clacton area. This partnership is known as the Clacton Consortium.
History
Grammar school
It was a grammar school. It was opened in September 1928, and 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).
Comprehensive
It became a comprehensive in 1973. In 1998 it became an Arts College.
In September 1999, 12 year old Reece Straight died after falling under the wheels of a school bus after sprinting after it once it left the school.
In 2007 the school's Principal, John Clay retired after twenty three years in charge. He was succeeded by former Vice Principal Jeff Brindle.
Academic results
It gets GCSE and A-levels results below the England average, with the A-level results slightly better than the GCSE results.
Alumni
- Alan Devereux CBE, Chairman from 1977-9 of CBI Scotland
- Frederick Fenning, nuclear physicist, helped to develop the ZEEP reactor at Chalk River Laboratories, and involved with the design of the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR)
- Sir David Harrison CBE, Master from 1994-2000 of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and President from 1991-2 of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), and Vice-Chancellor from 1979-84 of Keele University
- Sir Curtis Keeble CMG, Ambassador to Russia from 1979-82, and to the German Democratic Republic from 1974-6
- Prof John Pateman, Professor of Genetics from 1970-9 at the University of Glasgow
- Sir Donald Rattee, High Court Judge (Chancery Division) from 1993-2000
- Harry Saggs, archaeologist
- Sade Adu, singer
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- Educational institutions established in 1928
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