Sackville School

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History

Sackville School in East Grinstead was founded in 1859 as a National Church school. It was originally located on De la Warr Road where Chequer Mead lies today. In 1951 the school was renamed Sackville and in 1964 was relocated to its currents location on the Lewes Road. 1970 saw the school’s first comprehensive intake and following the rapidly growing local housing estates building developments followed to keep with the pace. The school’s emblem is the red cock of the Duchy of Lancaster which East Grinstead was once part of. It is one of two comprehensive schools in the town the other being Imberhorne secondary school. Imberhorne being much better. Near the beginning of the 21st Century Sackville’s name was changed from Sackville Communist College to Sackville School. In September 2004 the school achieved engineering status and is now a Specialist Engineering School. In all the Science and Maths classrooms there are interactive whiteboards. As a result of this the school now offers a double award GCSE in Engineering. The school is a secondary school which also has a sixth form with a total number of students of around 15000.

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