Eastbury Community School


Eastbury Community School is a community secondary school with a sixth form in the east London Borough of Barking & Dagenham.

History

Eastbury Secondary School was founded at Dawson Ave in 1931. After the implementation of the tripartite system, it became a secondary modern. It merged with South East Essex Secondary Technical School in 1970 and moved to Rosslyn Road to become Eastbury Comprehensive School when the scheme was abolished.
The school has been renamed to Eastbury Community School because a new primary school has been built inside a secondary school, which took over almost half of the Eastbury's playground. The primary school could take more than 1 or 2 years to come to fruition. In addition, the student population is expected to rise to over 2000, making it of the biggest schools in Barking and Dagenham.

Campus

The school once covered two locations, a "lower" site in Rosslyn Road, accommodating Years 7-8 and, an "upper" site in Dawson Avenue, for Years 9-13. Eastbury merged the two sites so that it is now solely based in Rosslyn Road, alluding to extensions of the site, modernised buildings and facilities and a general 'revamp' of the premises. Eastbury also has a Sixth Form Centre. In 2006, Eastbury became a Secondary School specialising in Mathematics and Information Communication Technology.
The lower site was used to film the BBC children's TV drama M.I. High.

Use of technology

The school's Sixth Form is the only one in London to have a Cisco Networking Academy.
In 2010 the school was the first in Barking and Dagenham to introduce a cashless payment system using a contactless smart card. The Street Base Connect Card also gives access to youth, health, leisure and library services.

Notable former pupils