The Sandon School is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive academy school of approximately 1250 students. It serves a rural area on the outskirts of Chelmsford, Essex, England, and previously specialised in Maths and Computing.

History

The Sandon School opened in 1955 and became an academy in 2011.

The school has also had multiple sex offenders over time,. with another and latest conviction in March 2024 for extreme pornography from a teacher who worked at the school from September 2020 to November 2020

In March 2018 an Ofsted inspection found it to be a good school.

The school has a 25-hour teaching week. Jo Wincott, headmaster since 2004, retired in the summer of 2018. He has been succeeded by Andrew Weaver (2018–Present)

Facilities

Fully equipped fitness gym;

Two 4G astroturf pitches (This facility is operated for private evening and weekend bookings by Sandon Soccer Ltd.);

Two sports halls;

A gym;

A dance studio;

An all-weather long jump pit playing fields;

science laboratories.

Notable former pupils

• Bon Harris and Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb
• James Graham, singer and member of the boyband Stereo Kicks
• George "Frederick James" Taylor, Record Producer and Head of Data at Warp Records.

House System

The school also has a house system, in which the students take part in events and in-school activities in order to earn 'House points' for their houses.

House motto: "Many Branches, One Root"

The 4 houses conceive of:

 Blake
 Glennie
 Thompson
 Russel