The Gateway Academy, Essex

About

The Gateway Academy, formerly The Gateway Community College, is a coeducational academy secondary school in Grays, Essex, England. It became an academy in 2006 under the sponsorship of the Ormiston Trust after Thurrock Council was unable to find the resources to provide a new building. It was previously a successful fresh start school which was created from two failing secondary schools; Torells School in Grays and St Chad's School in Tilbury. It is currently a part of The Gateway Learning Community (GLC) but has retained its Ormiston sponsorship.

Although the school's address falls under Grays in actuality it is located between, and primarily serves, Chadwell St Mary and Tilbury. The school was previously located across two campuses, the old Torells School site and St Chad's School site in Grays and Tilbury respectively. On 17 June 2008 the school relocated to a new £38 million campus, shaped as a "G", which is where the school is currently located today. The school used to have a sixth form which closed in 2014 and currently hosts The Gateway Primary Free School which opened in 2012. The school has also operated a free summer school since 2011 which serves Year 6 and Year 7 students.