The Marsh Academy
The Marsh Academy, formerly John Southland's Community Comprehensive School, is a secondary school and sixth form college in New Romney, Kent, in the United Kingdom. The school is supported by the Skinners’ Company.
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Station Road , , TN28 8BB England | |
| Coordinates | 50°59′13″N 0°56′49″E |
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| Type | Academy |
| Established | 1610 |
| Trust | Sponsor-led, The Skinners' Company |
| Department for Education URN | 135290 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Principal | Mr Shaun Simmons[1] |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 19 |
| Website | marshacademy |
Students attend from all over Romney Marsh.
History
From 7 September 1977 until 24 July 2015, the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway provided school trains to transport children to and from the Academy. The service was finally withdrawn due to falling usage.[2]
In 1956, the grounds were initially used as a prison grounds using the interconnect tunnel underneath the road as an entrance, at a later date the tunnel was filled in due to safety concerns, splitting the grounds into two, one being transformed as commercial property, meanwhile a school was built on the unused land.
Description
A school serving a 1000 children in an isolated rural coastal location.[3]
References
- http://www.marshacademy.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=118
- "Boat trains, but no more school trains...". Narrow Gauge World (106). Atlantic Publishers Ltd. September 2015.
- "The Marsh Academy - GOV.UK". Find and compare schools in England. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
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