The Marsh Academy

The Marsh Academy
Address
Station Road New Romney , Kent , TN28 8BB England
Coordinates	50°59′13″N 0°56′49″E / 50.98694°N 0.94694°E / 50.98694; 0.94694Coordinates: 50°59′13″N 0°56′49″E / 50.98694°N 0.94694°E / 50.98694; 0.94694
Information
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.org.uk

The Marsh Academy, formerly 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.

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 The service was finally withdrawn due to falling usage.^[2]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[]

• Teach Web The Marsh Academy, Kent
• Ofsted's boost to Marsh Academy after criticism from parents

External links[]

• The Marsh Academy
• The March Academy School Prospectus
• The Marsh Academy Leisure Centre

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