About William Edwards School

William Edwards is a large, successful, harmonious and thriving mixed 11-16 comprehensive school. We firmly believe that your school days should be the best days of your life and that schools have a moral purpose to extend the life experiences of their pupils. That is why we boast the largest Duke of Edinburgh cohort of any school in the East of England, have a wide cultural education offer and are one of only a very small number of secondary schools nationally to hold both the Artsmark Platinum Award and the Youth Sports Trust Gold Award for our work in these diverse fields.

 Character education and providing a wealth of different experiences to our pupils are important to us. Our curriculum offer has remained as wide as possible and we are fully staffed with subject specialists.

We work hard to ensure we have established an exciting and ambitious ethos of high expectations and achievement, which has been supported with a strong pastoral care system and focus on wellbeing. With this, we aim to ensure that we work with you and your children to prepare our young people to be resilient, capable and responsible citizens of the future.

The school is a proud founding member of the South West Essex Community Education Trust which runs three secondary schools and three primary schools across Thurrock and the London Borough of Havering.