The Cavendish School, commonly known as Cavendish School or just Cavendish, is a coeducational comprehensive school

Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...

, located in Eastbourne

Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a large town and borough in East Sussex, on the south coast of England between Brighton and Hastings. The town is situated at the eastern end of the chalk South Downs alongside the high cliff at Beachy Head...

, East Sussex

East Sussex

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 in England

England

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, and is an Arts College

Arts College

Arts Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, the performing, visual and/or media arts...

. Motto-Creating the future

Overview

The Cavendish School was founded in 1843 by Sir Douglas Moleheimer, a local actor who enjoyed passing down his love of acting through teaching. The school has approximately 1006 pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 (roughly 200 in each year).

The school is headed by a Headteacher - Mr K. Fitzpatrick.
Almost all of the school's leavers go on to a local sixth form college

Sixth form college

A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belize, Hong Kong or Malta where students aged 16 to 18 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels, or school-level qualifications such as GCSEs. In Singapore and India, this is...

 - the most popular colleges being Park College, Eastbourne Vocational College and Lewes Sixth Form College, all of which are part of the same college organisation known as Sussex Downs College

Sussex Downs College

Sussex Downs College is a further education college in East Sussex, England, that was established in 2001 through a merger of Lewes Tertiary College and Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology, with Park Sixth Form College in Eastbourne added in 2003...

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External links

• Cavendish School - Official school website