Editing Witham (section)

==Education==
There are two secondary schools in Witham, [[Maltings Academy]] and [[New Rickstones Academy]]. Maltings Academy achieved 94% A*- C GCSE grades in 2012. (51% including English and Maths) and an above national average of 99% of pupils gaining at least one GCSE in 2012. The two schools are part of the Lift Academies chain. New Rickstones Academy was rated Good by Ofsted in January 2015 and Maltings Academy was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in March 2015.

The town's primary schools are Templars, Holy Family Catholic School, Howbridge, Powers Hall, Chipping Hill (which became a primary school in September 2010), Rivenhall CoE, Elm Hall Primary, Southview, and Silver End Primary. Both Chipping Hill School and Powers Hall Junior School received Outstanding OfSTED reports in 2008.Chipping Hill was named the Top School in East Anglia by the Sunday Times. 

The Chatten free school is a special educational needs school which opened in 2021. The school provides up to 75 places to pupils from across Essex with severe, complex autism.<ref>{{Cite web|title=New school opens up whole new world for students with severe autism in Essex|url=https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19595534.chatten-free-school-students-severe-autism-opens/|access-date=2022-01-06|website=Gazette|date=22 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>