Warden Park is a specialist secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 based in Cuckfield

Cuckfield

Cuckfield is a large village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, on the southern slopes of the Weald. It lies south of London, north of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester. Nearby towns include Haywards Heath to the southeast and Burgess...

, West Sussex

West Sussex

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. It specializes in mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

, ICT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 and modern foreign languages. There are approximately 1500 students aged 11 to 16 years old. The current Headteacher is Mr Steve Johnson and the Chair of the Governing Body is Mr J Ash-Edwards.

Catering

In 2003 the school felt that only direct management of their catering service would allow them to provide the sorts of menus that they felt were appropriate for the pupils and staff.

Press

In March 2008, Warden Park School was shown on the BBC

BBC

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's South East Today. The programme had an article about the forthcoming introduction of Biometric fingerprinting

Biometrics

Biometrics As Jain & Ross point out, "the term biometric authentication is perhaps more appropriate than biometrics since the latter has been historically used in the field of statistics to refer to the analysis of biological data [36]" . consists of methods...

to be used by pupils to pay for their school meals. This technology was implemented in Warden Park school in June 2008.

Also in the winter of 2010, Warden Park was featured on Meridian an South Today News. They were in the news for the efforts they had made to re-open the school due to the bad snow and ice. Many parents, governors, students and residents from the area helped out in the efforts of freeing the school from snow.