Editing Newark-on-Trent (section)

==Education==
The town has three main [[Mixed-sex education|mixed]] [[secondary schools]]:
* The oldest, [[Magnus Church of England Academy]], founded in 1531 by the diplomat [[Thomas Magnus]], lies close to the town centre.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.magnusacademy.co.uk./ |title=Home |website=magnusacademy.co.uk.}}</ref>
* [[The Newark Academy]] is in neighbouring [[Balderton]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thenewarkacademy.org.uk/ |title=The Newark Academy |publisher=The Newark Academy |access-date=2014-02-10}}</ref> (previously The Grove School).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/school-unveiled-as-academy-9024831/ |title=School unveiled as academy|date=November 2012}}</ref> It underwent a £25 million rebuild in 2016 after a long campaign.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/work-on-newark-academys-new-school-building-9010661. |title=Work on Newark Academy's new school building marked by turf-cutting |date=7 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://premierconstructionnews.com/2016/06/18/newark-academy.|title=Newark Academy |date=18 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-06-17 |title=Schools that were promised new buildings are still crumbling, years later |url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/jun/17/priority-schools-building-programme-inadequate |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
* In 2020 the [[Suthers School]] opened.<ref>{{cite web |title=Home {{!}} The Suthers School |url=https://thesuthersschool.co.uk/ |access-date=2022-06-27 |website=thesuthersschool.co.uk}}</ref>

The town's several [[primary school]]s include a new school in the Middlebeck development on the town's southern edge, opened in September 2021.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.middlebecknewark.com/new-chapter-christ-church-school | title=New chapter for Christ Church School | date=13 December 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christchurchprimarynewark.co.uk/ |title=Christ Church C of E Infant & Nursery School – Enquiring minds, Independent hearts |publisher=Christchurchprimarynewark.co.uk |accessdate=2022-08-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nanrah |first=Gurjeet |date=2020-09-24 |title=Work starts on new primary school at 3,150 home development |url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/work-begins-newark-primary-school-4541295 |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=Nottinghamshire Live |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/pictures-show-newarks-new-primary-school-as-it-starts-to-take-shape-9155166. |title=Pictures show Newark's new primary school as it starts to take shape |date=2 February 2021}}</ref>

Newark College, part of the [[Lincoln College, Lincolnshire]] Group, is situated on Friary Road, Newark, where it is home to the School of Musical Instrument Crafts. This school, which opened in 1972, has courses to train craftspeople to make and repair guitars, violins, and woodwind instruments, and to tune and restore pianos.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/college-welcomes-experienced-piano-tuner-to-teach-9257170/ | title=Newark College welcomes experienced piano tuner to teach at the School of Music Instrument Craft | date=1 June 2022 }}</ref>