Editing Thaxted (section)

== Education ==
Thaxted County Primary School was established in 1878 under the [[Elementary Education Act 1870|1870 Education Act]].<ref name=":8" /> It still occupies the fine Victorian building on the eastern edge of the town built for it in 1880 and is run by Essex County Council.

Thaxted lies within the secondary education catchment area for the [[Helena Romanes School]] in Great Dunmow.

There are a number of preschools in the area.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Education|url=https://www.thaxted.co.uk/index.php/residents/education|access-date=2020-10-31|website=thaxted.co.uk}}</ref>

The 1556 Borough Charter provided for setting up a [[grammar school]].<ref name=":4" /> This occupied the Guildhall from 1714 until it closed in 1878. A day school, operated by the Church of England, opened in 1819 and was housed in a building funded by Lord Maynard on the Broxted Road. The non-conformists established a rival British School in Bolford Street in 1856. Both schools ceased to operate when the Primary School was established in 1878.<ref name=":8" />

From 1944 to 1962, the [[Lavi|Bachad]] Farm Institute, located on a farm at Bardfield End Green, provided agricultural training to young Jewish refugees, including many from the [[Kindertransport]], as part of a network of [[hakhshara]] youth training farms.<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Ploughing a Furrow to Zion: Fostering Ideals and Identities through the Agricultural Training of European Jewish Youth – A Case Study of the Bachad Movement 1928-1962|url=https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6667/|publisher=University of London|date=2017-09-01|degree=masters|language=en|first=Verity|last=Steele}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=HOME|url=https://www.veritysteele.org/|access-date=2020-10-06|website=Verity Steele|language=en}}</ref>