Furtherwick Park School is a boy and girls school for 11–16 year olds, located on Canvey Island

Canvey Island

Canvey Island is a civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary in England. It is separated from the mainland of south Essex by a network of creeks...

. The school is in the town centre. As the oldest school on the Island, it celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006. The school has around 1000 pupils. This school is no longer accepting new year 7 students because in 2011/2012 the school will be moving students to Cornelius and Castle View School

Castle View School (Essex)

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. While this happens the current Furtherwick site will undergo construction of the new Castle View. In 2007 the school got a media 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...

status.