Clacton County High School Clacton County High School Clacton County High School (often abbreviated to CCHS) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Clacton-on-Sea, in the county of Essex, England. There are over 1,900 students attending the school. It specialises in the performing arts, and is situated next to Clacton Leisure Centre, east of the railway station. The school sixth form is working in partnership with other local schools to provide post 16 years education in the Clacton area. It was a grammar school. It was opened in September 1928, and the official opening was on 28 November
2014 Clacton by-election controversy by writing in "The Times" that the Conservatives should be “careless” of Clacton voters’ opinions as “Clacton-on-Sea is going nowhere”, remarks which were disowned by local Conservatives and denounced by Carswell as "reflective of what so many in the upper echelons of the Tory party really think" and were cited by two local Conservative councillors as a reason for defecting to UKIP. An important component of the UKIP campaign was a public meeting of 700 people at the Clacton Coastal Academy with Douglas Carswell and UKIP leader Nigel Farage which was billed as the "biggest public meeting in Clacton