 This Ongar Grammar School was a private school for boys which was opened as a boarding school in 1811 by William Stokes M.A.By 1845 the school was known as 'Ongar Academy' (not in the post-2010 Academy school sense), by 1874 it was known as a private grammar school, by 1882 as Chignell Grammar School, and by 1914 as Chipping Ongar Grammar School.It closed as such in 1940, before the introduction of under the Education Act 1944 and the Tripartite System.