The Marsh Academy

The Marsh Academy, formerly Southland's Community Comprehensive School, is a non-selective secondary school in New Romney, Kent, England. The school is supported by the Skinners’ Company.

The Marsh Academy
Address
Station Road

New Romney
,
Kent
,
TN28 8BB

England
Coordinates50°59′13″N 0°56′49″E
Information
TypeAcademy
Established1610
TrustSponsor-led, The Skinners' Company
Department for Education URN135290 Tables
OfstedReports
PrincipalShaun Simmons[1]
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 19
Websitemarshacademy.org.uk

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 The service was finally withdrawn due to falling usage.[2]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
  1. "Welcome to the Marsh Academy".
  2. "Boat trains, but no more school trains...". Narrow Gauge World. No. 106. Atlantic Publishers Ltd. September 2015.
  3. "The Marsh Academy - GOV.UK". Find and compare schools in England. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
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